John Polkinghorne Quotes

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Creationism means simply a belief in creation

Man did not evolve but was created.

Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.