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    Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion

    By John Polkinghorne

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    Templeton Award winner and theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne explores the gap between science and religion. "Do we have to choose between the scientific and religious views of the world, or are they complementary understandings that give us a fuller picture than either on their own would provide?" Quarks, Chaos, & Christianity shows the ways that both science and religion point to something greater than ourselves. Topics include: chaos theory; evolution; miracles; cosmology; guest for God; how God answers prayer; our human nature; religious fact and opinion; scientists and prayer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Crossroad Publishing Company
    Release dateMar 1, 2017
    ISBN9780824501518
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    Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion
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    John Polkinghorne

    John Polkinghorneis one of the world's leading experts on Science and Religion. A world-class physics Professor at Cambridge who became a priest, Founding President of the ISSR and winner of the Templeton Prize, Polkinghorne's publications include Exploring Reality, Quantum Physics and Theology, Quarks, Chaos and Christianity, Science and the Trinity, Living with Hope, and Belief in God in an Age of Science.

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      The author is at his best when presenting complex scientific notions to the uninitiated, and when dispelling common misapprehensions on how science and religion proceed in their respective fields of inquiry – pointing out at the same time that both seek rational responses to their questions, a motivated assent to things seen and unseen. Such misapprehensions have led many to consider them - mistakenly - as contradictory and mutually exclusive, rather than as complementary paths to the truth.Half-way the book slides from scientific questions and, in the author's opinion, their compatibility with religious belief, into a more apologetic tone, making more openly a case for Christianity. Mind you, being myself a Roman Catholic priest, I do not have any major objection to this, but it is not what I expected from this book...The author rightly rejects the views of God either as a puppet-master or as an indifferent spectator. He presents creation as a continuous process, and puzzles over the problem of evil. But for some of his explanations, or proposed solutions, he takes a very liberal view of Christian doctrine, advancing notions that contradict what the Christian faith has historically asserted – for example, regarding God’s efficiency in the work of creation, or regarding God’s will and His knowledge of the future. Although I strongly disagree with much of the author’s theology, the book is nonetheless worth reading – it makes many good points, and is thought-provoking. It may not give you acceptable solutions to the problems posed, but it is a good starting point for thinking seriously about them and sheds some light on the path ahead...