Five years ago, I interviewed Sir John Templeton for the WSJ, to write this article about the prize that bears his name. Key line:
The challenge for the prize in the years ahead will be to avoid sliding into a theistic mire of sloppy thinking that isn’t grounded in any religious tradition. At the same time, it has a remarkable opportunity to help unite believers who are willing to accept scientific rationalism as a tool of faith and scientists who are finding that cosmology and other matters are most useful to us when they address religious questions.