My personal background as a professor of religion clearly suggests where my dominant interest and professional training lies. Nonetheless, I have maintained a more than casual interest in matters scientific. Thus, I am speaking as a religionist with a curiosity for matters scientific. I have couched my remarks as a series of individual propositions.
Religion never moves at the pace of science.
By nature, science is more experiential and discovery-based, whereas religion is more contemplative and reflective. Through the frenetic activity of nuclear scientists the atomic bomb was created. No less frenetic were the subsequent decisions regarding whether or not to use it. It is a fact that expanding technologies will continually outpace religion, philosophy, and ethics. Currently, a glaring example of this reality is the human genome project.