I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

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

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

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

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 knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.