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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
- John Polkinghorne
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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
- John Polkinghorne
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Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
- John Polkinghorne
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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.
- John Polkinghorne
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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
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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
- John Polkinghorne
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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
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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.
- John Polkinghorne
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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
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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
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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
- John Polkinghorne
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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
- John Polkinghorne
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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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It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
- John Polkinghorne
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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
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