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John Polkinghorne quotes

British Physicist October 16, 1930

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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
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
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
John Polkinghorne quote: "Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to..."
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. John Polkinghorne
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
If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology. John Polkinghorne
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
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. John Polkinghorne
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. John Polkinghorne
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
John Polkinghorne quote: "Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic..."
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. John Polkinghorne
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
John Polkinghorne quote: "It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to..."
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. John Polkinghorne
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
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

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