Transcript - How do we equip Christians to live with the questions science raises for faith?

Voices

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles, military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

David Berlinski

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Augustine of Hippo

What we are interested in is that the world is the product of God’s creative action, whatever the manner of that action may be.

al-Ghazzali

Science is about knowing and so is religion, but they’re about different kinds of knowing. Science is about how things happen and what’s out there. And religion is much more about the meaning behind what is and relationships between human beings and that beyond ourselves and between human beings themselves.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

Only art can go some way towards making accessible, towards waking into some measure of communicability, the sheer inhuman otherness of matter…

G. Steiner

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

We should use our opinions to start discussions, not to end them.

Madeline Albright

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

J.B.S. Haldane

Knowing is itself an act that has consequences

Ivone Gebara

When they are able, from reliable evidence, to prove some fact of physical science, we shall show that it is not contrary to our Scripture.

Augustine of Hippo