We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.

I love looking at pictures of nebulas and reading articles about black holes and dark matter - I always tie it into spirituality.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.