Marcelo Gleiser, a Brazilian (yay!) theoretical physicist currently teaching at Dartmouth College, has won this year’s Templeton Prize for his work "Science does not kill God". Gleiser's current research interests include the physics of the early Universe, the nature of physical complexity, and questions related to the origin of life on Earth and elsewhere in the Universe.

This Scientific American article has a nice summary and a bunch of very interesting discussion points (of which I quote a couple below), but I'll let you read the article yourself, and come to your own conclusions.

• "It is impossible for science to obtain a true theory of everything"

• "We cannot presume that we are going to solve all the problems of the world using a strict scientific approach. It will not be the case, and it hasn’t ever been the case, because the world is too complex, and science has methodological powers as well as methodological limitations."

• “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”