Evolution, Of Course, Is Not Something That

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.

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.

Nevertheless, All Of Us Who Work In Quantum Physics Believe In The Reality Of A Quantum World, And The Reality Of Quantum Entities Like Protons And Electrons.

God Is Not A God Of The Edges, With A Vested Interest In Beginnings. God Is The God Of The Whole Show.

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.