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However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
— John Polkinghorne
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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
— 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
Tags: thinking, culture, time, history
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
— John Polkinghorne
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The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
— John Polkinghorne
Tags: evolution, earth, world, life
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
Tags: view, world, respect, great
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