John Polkinghorne's Profile
Brief about John Polkinghorne: By info that we know John Polkinghorne was born at 1930-10-16. And also John Polkinghorne is British Physicist.
Some John Polkinghorne's quotes. Goto "John Polkinghorne's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Ideas, Process, ThoughtEvolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
Tags: Here, Life, WholeChance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
Tags: Chance, Mean, RatherI also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
Tags: Give, Science, TryScience 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.
Tags: Age, History, ScienceI'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.
Tags: Experience, Knowledge, RealityThose theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
Tags: Attention, Beginning, ScienceI 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.
Tags: Best, Thought, WorkI think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
Tags: Between, Christian, CreationSo Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
Tags: Physics, Process, UnderstandWhitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
Tags: Against, God, IdeaYes, 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.
Tags: Class, Five, WorkingBottom 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.
Tags: Experience, Hope, TrueOf 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.
Tags: History, Human, TimeQuantum 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.
Tags: Sense, Simply, UnderstandAfter 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.
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