JOHN POLKINGHORNE (Week 7)

Revered Polkinghorne; a scientist and mathematical physics. Christianity has been in his lives since childhood. Natural Theologists-evidence in divinity God created certain things. Two important divine purpose 1) rational beauty of the world, he says that we need to understand why things occur the way they do. Understanding nature, science from Einstein and understanding survival. "Beautiful mathematic" a discovery on how God made the world and how the universe is made up. Higher order is present in the universe and how it is all about. The principle that he talks about is how much God is involved in everyone's life. Since the universe has been around God has always been around for the world to be a purpose of the universe. Physical example he talks about is the stars and without them we will burn. He also talks about gravity, "raw material of life" nuclear furnes of the stars. He says the world is much more complex than imaginable. Strangest of the quantum world, on how things should behave and they should work. The world in his eyes is not "mechanical" through God. Measurement problem; we find in the world and physics do not understand the basis of the quantum theory.He has a trans personal experience of God. He says there is a problem with evil, through suffering, crime, death and pain.