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Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding

Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding
By John C. Polkinghorne

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“For far too long the science-religion debate has been dominated—even
clouded—by questions of biological evolution thrown up in the nineteenth
century, while the transformation of the physical world in the twentieth has
often seemed strangely irrelevant. This book epitomizes a welcome trend to
redress the balance. . . . [It] is to be warmly recommended to all who seek
to enrich the dialogue between science and theology.”—C. A. Russell, Science
& Christian Belief
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.”

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #333996 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 152 pages

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"For far too long the science-religion debate has been dominated--even clouded--by questions of biological evolution thrown up in the nineteenth century, while the transformation of the physical world in the twentieth has often, seemed strangely irrelevant. This book epitomizes a welcome trend to redress the balance. . . . ÝIt is to be warmly recommended to all who seek to enrich the dialogue between science and theology." -- C. A. Russell

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Science and Creation - The Search for Truth3
Polkinghorne talks about the theological and scientific paradigms by asking some very fundamental questions about how they relate to one another. Some of the questions he poses include what is the relationship between matter and mind, a subject I find extremely fascinating. How are the realms of "becoming" as we experience it and the world of "being" as he believes the way the world of physics describes it relate to God's involvement and the physical universe. How do the supposed insights of what he believes modern physics and the intertwining of order and disorder relate to the Christian doctrine of creation? These are some of the questions he asks and attempts to answer in this book. Notes at the end of the book, a bibliography and a subject index are most helpful.