Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding PDF

John Carlton Polkinghorn, britischer theoretischer Physiker, religiöser Denker, Schriftsteller und anglikanischer Priester, geboren 1930 Als Präsident des Queen's College Cambridge von 1988 bis 1996 verfasste Polkinghorne fünf Bücher über Physik und sechsundzwanzig Bücher über die Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion. Zu seinen Büchern gehören Quantum World 1989, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Connection 2005, Exploring Truth: The Intertwining of Science and Religion 2007, Questions of Truth 2009, A Polkinghorn Reader (herausgegeben von Thomas J. Ord) und Bereitstellung wichtiger Zusammenfassungen von Polkinghorns Büchern zu den einflussreichsten Büchern, wurde 1997 zum Ritter geschlagen und erhielt 2002 einen Templeton-Preis in Höhe von 1 Million Pfund Sterling für seine herausragenden Beiträge zur Bekräftigung der spirituellen Dimension des Lebens.

Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding pdf von John Polkinghorne

John C. Polkinghorne, internationally renowned priest-scientist, addresses fundamental questions about how scientific and theological worldviews relate to each other in this, the second volume (originally published in 1988) of his trilogy, which also included Science and Providence and One World.Dr. Polkinghorne illustrates how a scientifically minded person approaches the task of theological inquiry, postulating that there exists a close analogy between theory and experiment in science and belief and understanding in theology. He offers a fresh perspective on such questions as: Are we witnessing today a revival a natural theology—the search for God through the exercise of reason and the study of nature? How do the insights of modern physics into the interlacing of order and disorder relate to the Christian doctrine of Creation? What is the relationship between mind and matter?Polkinghorne states that the "remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which it itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of God, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like.The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching."