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

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

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.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

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.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.