Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding pdf

John Carlton Polkinghorn, físico teórico británico, pensador religioso, escritor y sacerdote anglicano, nacido en 1930 Como presidente del Queen's College Cambridge de 1988 a 1996, Polkinghorne fue autor de cinco libros sobre física y veintiséis libros sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión. Sus libros incluyen 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 (editado por Thomas J. Ord) y proporciona resúmenes clave de Polkinghorn libros más influyentes, nombrado caballero en 1997 y galardonado con un premio Templeton de 1 millón de libras esterlinas en 2002 por sus destacadas contribuciones a la afirmación de la dimensión espiritual de la vida.

Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding pdf por 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."