Quote by John Polkinghorne
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creati

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to sciences story. – John Polkinghorne

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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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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. – John Polkinghorne

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Im a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that were seeking to describe. – John Polkinghorne

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Thats the whole problem with science. Youve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. – Bill Watterson

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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. – Karl Popper

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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. – Kary Mullis

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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. – John Boyd Orr

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