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John Polkinghorne
October 16, 1930 -
Nationality: British
Category: Physicist
Subcategory: British Physicist

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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