Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

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 need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.