I like a lot of what Polkinghorne writes on science, and I quote him quite a
bit on my web site. He did an interview for Christianity Today magazine which
may have useful quotes for you. I put a link and an excerpt below.
--merv
What follows is an excerpt from the full interview found at:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/143/21.0.html
Why should a scientist believe that theology has a place at the academic table?
I think all scientists are imbued with a thirst for understanding. They want
to make sense of the world in which we live. Science helps us to a very
significant extent to do that. But not every question that we want to ask is a
scientific question and, therefore, not every question we want to ask will
have a scientific answer.
For example, scientists are very struck with the beautiful order of the world—
this universe that started as a ball of energy 15 billion years ago now is the
home of saints and mathematicians. Science explains some of that process but
it doesn't explain where the beautiful laws of nature come from.
How does it come about that this physical world that's made up of quarks and
gluons and electrons is also the arena of moral choice? Religion explains that
because just as it sees God's mind behind the scientifically discerned order
of the world, it sees God's will and purpose behind our ethical intuitions. So
it ties things together for me. [J. Polkinghorne]
<End excerpt>
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