John Polkinghorne Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

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

  John Polkinghorne

  Earth, Evolution, Courses

• The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

  John Polkinghorne

  Happy Accidents, Transparency, Remarkable

  John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

  John Polkinghorne

  Nature, Everything Happens For A Reason, Law

  "Science Finds God". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 1998.

• 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.

  John Polkinghorne

  Character, Age, Doctrine

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Culture

• Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Teaching, Math, Keys

  John C. Polkinghorne (2010). “One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology”, p.55, Templeton Foundation Press

• 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.

  John Polkinghorne

  Stars, Years, Generations

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