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

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.

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.

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

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.