However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

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

However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

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.

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

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.