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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from expe

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. – John Polkinghorne

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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. – John Polkinghorne

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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you cant construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. – John Polkinghorne

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along. – Samuel Butler, “Speech at the Somerville Club,” 27 February 1895

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