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"God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show."
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John Charlton Polkinghorne was a Cornish theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. He served as the presi
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"God didnt produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself."
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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow its something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."
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"There is much cloudy unpredictable process throughout the whole of the physical world. It is a coherent possibility that God interacts with the history of creation by means of "information input" into its open physical process. The causal net of the universe is not drawn so tight as to exclude this possibility. Mere mechanism is dead, and a more subtle and supple universe is accessible to the providential interaction of the Creator."
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