Transcript - Is the only way to see the science-theology relationship as a sort of conflict?

Voices

Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!

Raheel Farooq

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

C.S. Lewis

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

Madeline Albright

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Marie Curie

Knowing is itself an act that has consequences

Ivone Gebara

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

There are but two ways whereby the Spirit leadeth men into all truth; the one extraordinary, the other common; the one belonging but unto some few, the other extending itself unto all that are of God; the one, that which we call by a special divine excellency Revelation, the other Reason.

Richard Hooker

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

Augustine of Hippo

When we do science, we participate in the healing work of the creator.  When we understand a little more of nature, we take a step further in the reconciliation of a broken relationship.

Tom McLeish

God rejoices that his human creatures, irrespective of race, culture, gender, or religious faith, are making exhilarating advances in science, art, music, ethics, philosophy, and law, apprehending with increasing ability the truth, the beauty, the goodness that emanate from him.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu