On science and Christian belief

The eminent American astronomer Allan Sandage (1926–2010) worked for many years at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and lived in the nearby town of San Gabriel, only a few blocks from the house in which I grew up.  One of my great disappointments is that I learned this only very shortly before he died, and that, consequently, I was never able to meet him.  Dr. Sandage determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and for the age of the universe.  He also discovered the first quasar.

Responding to the question “Can a person be a scientist and also a Christian?” he said, ““Yes. The world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together.”