Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

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

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