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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn’t leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I’d done my bit for it after about twenty-five years (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
I think it’s very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you’re forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
So Whitehead’s metaphysics doesn’t fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Theologians have a great problem because they’re seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there’s a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
God didn’t produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature. (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for... as far as that power lies in us (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of God, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Well, it’s because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it’s something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Chance doesn’t mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that’s the way that novelty, new things, come about (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science (John Polkinghorne Quotes)
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