God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.

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.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.