Transcript -Theological and biblical narratives relating to Covid-19

Voices

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

Louis Agassiz

What science finds to be nonexistent we should all accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge.

Clarence Darrow

(Describing the Munduruku people of Brazil): The sacred dimension, for them, does not have a wall around it. How are you going to build a place for God if God is in everything?

Fr. Joao Messias Sousa, OFM

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

Terry Pratchett

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

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Alistair McGrath

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

A little philosophy makes men atheists: A great deal reconciles them to religion.

Francis Bacon

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Madeline L’Engle