Quotes by John Polkinghorne

John Polkinghorne

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

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Stars

Years

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Theological

Thinking

Too Much

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

Moving

Reality

Thinking

Chance doesn’t mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that’s the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Historical

Mean

Way

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

Courses

Earth

Evolution

God didn’t produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

Able

Done

World

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Interest

Shows

Whole

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action…. What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for…as far as that power lies in us.

Action

Commitment

Lying

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

Christ

Church

Creation

I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

Giving

Temptation

Thinking

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Done

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Quotes by John Polkinghorne

John Polkinghorne

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

Chance doesn’t mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that’s the way that novelty, new things, come about.

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

God didn’t produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action…. What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for…as far as that power lies in us.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

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