If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.