Chris Carter Quotes

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Religion and science look at reality differently.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

This impels me ... to set forth briefly my opinion on the question, whether the world was made by chance.... I therefore say, as I have said already, that the world is a necessary effect of the divine nature, and that it has not been made by chance.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

I believe in God and immortality.