Adversaries Quote by Peter Gay

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety…

— H. L. Mencken

“If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is…

— John Polkinghorne

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for…

— Albert Einstein

“The processes we’re going through are two sides of the same coin, because everything ends in mystery — the scientists have theories, and the…

— Ray Bradbury

“It is ironical that, in the very field in which Science has claimed superiority to Theology, for example - in the abandoning of dogma…

— Herbert Dingle

I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the…

— Lyman Abbott

Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas…scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually…

— Frank J. Tipler

“[...] Within the religious realm, the same can be said about that type of'apologetics' that claims to agree with the results of modern science-an…

— René Guénon

Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in…

— John Polkinghorne

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

— David Chilton

“The ongoing work of individual theologians continues to inform the authoritative doctrine of the people of God.”

— Beth Felker Jones