Perché la teologia deve interessarsi delle scienze naturali?

The paper inquires the deep reasons of the dialogue between theology and natural sciences. At present theology cannot limit itself to avoiding the clash with scientific theories or to apologetically use scientific knowledge to confirm its arguments. The natural sciences - if we take the language of Melchior Cano - are one of the loci theologici; the theologian has the duty to appeal to the results of science, as John Paul II wrote on p. Coyne. The profound reason for this duty is identified in the impossibility of a divergence between faith and reason: both the light of faith and that of reason that investigates reality in a scientific way are from God and the truth cannot contradict the truth (cf. Vatican I, Dei Filius). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]