The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.

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.

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

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.