Occupation: Physicist Birth: October 16, 1930
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe..
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology..
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that….
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show..
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents..
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 e….
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they thin….
God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself..
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which ….
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling througho….
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly sho….
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..
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which ….
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 ….
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 fro….
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 g….
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptatio….
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 un….
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 che….
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story..
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe..