…if science is dealing with something real, though permanently beyond it, then this suggests that a more fundamental reality exists as a kind of ground of being for everything as we perceive it too. Moreover, that ground exists outside of space and time – which actually is not so startling a comment: the laws of nature presumably exist outside of space and time too, since they themselves determine the nature of space and time.1
- http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/16/religion-philosophy-templeton-prize [↩]