Occupation: Priest Birth: January 19, 1933
I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science..
I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God..
There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason….
The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienatio….
The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally..
Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God..
I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the uni….
God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sister….
Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it..
People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that sci….
My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because….
Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very re….
I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistak….
There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, ….
Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research..
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of ….
I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God..
In a very real sense my science does inform my knowledge of God. If you would allow me to say that we never know God, because if I claim that I know ….
Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith..
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results..
If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some ….