Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of God, unless we also have some knowledge of the nature of the universe as having come from God.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.