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.

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.

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.

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.

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

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