Theology and Science Quotes

Science and religion are non-overlapping magisteria.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

I think science and religion should be separate.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

The more science learns, the more I'm convinced that God is real.

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

He [Charles Darwin] had the greatest impact on the thinking of modern man, of anybody.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.