Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 1930 |
Geburtsort | Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England |
Todesort | Cambridge |
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Beschreibung | John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (16. Oktober 1930 - 9. März 2021) war ein englischer theoretischer Physiker, Theologe und anglikanischer Priester. Er war eine prominente und führende Stimme, die die Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion erklärte. Von 1968 bis 1979 war er Professor für mathematische Physik an der Universität Cambridge, als er seinen Lehrstuhl aufgab, um für das Priesteramt zu studieren. 1982 wurde er zum anglikanischen Priester geweiht. Von 1988 bis 1996 diente er als Präsident des Queens' College in Cambridge. |
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
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.
