I Think It's Very Important To Maintain

Science Cannot Tell Theology How To Construct A Doctrine Of Creation, But You Can't Construct A Doctrine Of Creation Without Taking Account Of The Age Of The Universe And The Evolutionary Character Of Cosmic History.

The Test Of A Theory Is Its Ability To Cope With All The Relevant Phenomena, Not Its A Priori 'reasonableness'. The Latter Would Have Proved A Poor Guide In The Development Of Science, Which Often Makes Progress By Its Encounter With The Totally Unexpected And Initially Extremely Puzzling.

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.

People, And Especially Theologians, Should Try To Familiarize Themselves With Scientific Ideas. Of Course, Science Is Technical In Many Respects, But There Are Some Very Good Books That Try To Set Out Some Of The Conceptual Structure Of Science.

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.