John Polkinghorne
One of the great minds of the 20th century (read his bio from Wikipedia below) yet as many do; he misses the point of creation. I would like to first start out stating that Jesus says if you can’t believe Moses, you can’t believe Him (John 5:46)… Moses stated the earth and cosmos were created in six days. God created a completed Earth and Cosmos in 6 days…. If He could do that, would it be out of His ability to create it with an appearance of being much older?
John is a believer in a long period for each day as so many others try to find a relationship between creation and evolution.
We can trust God’s word to be the truth, and there are so much evidence against an old earth is seems odd to me that such a man would not see it.
However the point is, he does not find contradiction between science and God, in fact science gives much more evidence to creation than evolution… thus the reason that I posted this video.
John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (born 16 October 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer 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 president of Queens’ College, Cambridge from 1988 until 1996.
Polkinghorne is the author of five books on physics, and 26 on the relationship between science and religion; his publications include The Quantum World (1989), Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (2005), Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion (2007), and Questions of Truth (2009). The Polkinghorne Reader (edited by Thomas Jay Oord) provides key excerpts from Polkinghorne’s most influential books. He was knighted in 1997 and in 2002 received the £1 million Templeton Prize, awarded for exceptional contributions to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.
