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.

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

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

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

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

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.