John Polkinghorne - Science vs. Religion? (N56)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2013

⏱️ 32 minutes

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John Polkinghorne has spent more years than we've been alive inhabiting the world of science and faith. He's a theoretical physicist, theologian and Anglican priest. He's been Knighted by the Queen and has received the coveted Templeton Prize for his exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension. So who better to ask a few questions about life, the universe and everything?!

“I often like to say that I’m two-eyed: I view the world through the eye of science and through the eye of religion. And I think with that two-eyed vision, I can see further and deeper than I could with either eye on its own.” - John Polkinhorne

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.1	Welcome back to Nomad podcast. Here we are again. In Cambridge. Do you think people starting to sense that we may go to one city
0:22.6	and then do a few interviews? Yeah. Because often... We're saving the environment. Well, I think we'd probably
0:29.1	take a train or a bus if we were genuinely trying to save the environment. The fact that we flew here.
0:35.0	We drive, although we drive was right. We had three passengers in the car didn't me two of whom
0:39.8	were american yeah they flew all the way over here because they'd heard about no mo podcast
0:44.0	not strictly true um yeah they were just looking for cheap place to stay because we wouldn't
0:49.0	post the book so they came and got it we got a couple of Californians in the car and a wife.
0:55.3	Yeah.
0:55.8	Your wife.
0:56.7	Yeah.
0:57.3	So that's better for the environment, isn't it?
0:59.6	It is.
1:00.0	Traveling with five in the car.
1:02.0	What are we talking about?
1:03.6	Oh yeah, we're in Cambridge and we're here to interview Professor, Dr.
1:09.0	Reverend John Polkenhorn. Yeah, that's a great That's quite a great, isn't it? That's amazing,
1:14.6	yeah. This is one of those situations. I had this when I met Archbishop, Rowan Williams. What do you
1:22.7	call someone like that? Yeah. So we just call him John. That sounds a bit kind of over familiar,
1:26.4	doesn't it, when he's a reverend and a doctor and a professor? Yeah. Rev, prof. I don't know. What do you call someone
1:32.3	like that? And it's quite awkward when you shake someone's hand and say, hi, I'm Tim. What do I call
1:35.5	you? I read somewhere that he'd been knighted as well. Is he? Yeah, I think so. All right. he's a sir so he's sir professor reverend doctor john polkenhorn possibly the most qualified person we've
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