Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding

by John Polkinghorne

Publisher:

Templeton Press

, 2006

Overview

In this volume, John 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 of 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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Key Features

• Speaks of God and creation in the light of contemporary understanding
• Discusses how science can benefit faith, rather than water it down
• Encourages readers to be “sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth”

Contents

• Natural Theology
• Insightful Inquiry
• Order and Disorder
• Creation and Creator
• The Nature of Reality
• Theological Science

Product Details

• Title: Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding
• Author: John Polkinghorne
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 1988
• Pages: 152

About John Polkinghorne

Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne (1930-2021) was a distinguished physicist who spent recent decades studying and writing about the relationship between science and faith. His physics career began at Cambridge where he studied under the legendary quantum pioneer P.A.M. Dirac and others, and he worked for 25 years in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics as a professor at Cambridge. He resigned his professorship in 1979 and became an Anglican priest, and since then has become a leading spokesman for the faith among serious scientists. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, and was appointed KBE (Knight Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1997.