With modernization has come greater control over the exigencies of nature, thus diminishing the need for religious explanations for these exigencies and increasing the importance of specialized knowledge devoted strictly to the empirical understanding of nature. (religion-online.org)
To Berger no theodicy (i.e., religious explanation of suffering, death, or evil) is tolerable if it can not be recited face - to - face to suffering children and their parents. (religion-online.org)
Intelligent design as well as other religious explanations for scientific questions are simply a fail - over for, «I don't know». (religion.blogs.cnn.com)