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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

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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

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Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Physicist

Born: October 16th, 1930

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