Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Realizing our society as it is without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it and being humane toward that society that is all that we're sure of.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology and we should resist the temptation which sometimes scientists give in to to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

A theology should be like poetry which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

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.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.