The structures of scientific discovery and of religious revelation are similar. Both scientific insights and religious revelations distinguish humans as creating creatures, beings imbued with imaginative powers. Creativity, however, often gives birth to new ideas that challenge established organizations and worldviews. This tension requires the courage to create, as exemplified by Galileo. Religious faith can be a source of this courage.
Creativity offers hope for the future.
Even though there have been conflicts between science and religion in the past, each day offers an opportunity for creating a new synthesis. Creativity is the principle of novelty. As creating creatures, we can further the process of transforming science and religion into a complex, complementary unity. Cooperation and covenant are essential to the new relation. Our viewpoint of the amazing history of life is that nothing could have developed without cooperation.