Dr. Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize-winning pioneer in organ and cell transplants, sees faith and science more closely intertwined. “Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist – I don’t see it.” . . . One truth is revealed truth, the other is scientific truth. If you really believe that creation is good, there can be no harm in studying science. The more we learn about creation – the way it emerged – it just adds to the glory of God. Personally. I’ve never seen a conflict.

Like most scientists, he welcomed the Pope [John Paul II’s] statement on evolution. “I know many of my non-Catholic friends welcomed it, some of the agnostic scientists, or atheists, repelled by what they understood as a basic Christian opposition to evolution, were pleased as punch that a person like the pope would come out in favor of it,” he said. “I think the important thing to realize is how little we know about anything,” Murray related. “How flowers unfold, how butterflies migrate. We have to avoid the arrogance of persons on either side of the [science-religion] divide who feel that they have all the answers. We have to try to use our intellect with humility.”