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.

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

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

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

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.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

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