Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.

God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology (ed. SUNY Press, 1989) - ISBN: 9780887069307