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


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It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.



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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.



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



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



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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.



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.

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.



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

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



God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.



Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.



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Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.





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