I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
John PolkinghorneGod didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
John PolkinghorneScience 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.
John PolkinghorneSo Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne