ABSTRACT
Over the last few decades there has been a steadily increasing amount of useful discussion between the fields of science and theology. Robert John Russell has played a major role both as an important scholar and in forming the very effective Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. Before the twentieth century, science was already remarkably successful and seemed to say that everything happening in our world was completely deterministic. Science now has fundamental laws predicting the probability of particular things happening. The basic and challenging problems or puzzles which the author has selected are of course well recognized by many, and confront any synthesis of science and religion. An electron can never be located at a precise place, nor be known to head in a precise direction. Early in the history of quantum mechanics, many scientists thought that perhaps the unpredictability of phenomena which had been discovered provided a place where God could and was acting.
