{"id":841,"date":"2002-11-25T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/11\/25\/the-faith-of-a-scientist\/"},"modified":"2002-11-25T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T23:09:15","slug":"the-faith-of-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/11\/25\/the-faith-of-a-scientist","title":{"rendered":"The Faith of a Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2002\/143\/21.0.html\">interview at Christianity Today<\/a>: <i>John Polkinghorne worked for years as a theoretical elementary particle physicist and then a mathematical physics professor at Cambridge University before resigning to train for ministry in the Church of England. Earlier this year, he was awarded the 2002 Templeton Prize for progress in religion\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Polkinghorne on whether science and faith are compatible: <i>\u201cI\u2019ve never felt an either\/or situation that I had to choose either my science or my religious belief. Of course, there are puzzles about how the two relate to each other, and I tried to think about those during my science days. And, of course, I\u2019ve thought a great deal more about them since&nbsp;then.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI try to hold the two together as far as I can myself. I want to be, so to speak two-eyed: looking through my science eye and my religious eye at the same time. I\u2019m glad that I\u2019m both a physicist and a priest and, though I\u2019m puzzled by how those aspects of me fit together, I want to hold them in dialogue with each other.\u201d<\/i> (read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2002\/143\/21.0.html\">whole thing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview at Christianity Today: John Polkinghorne worked for years as a theoretical elementary particle physicist and then a mathematical physics professor at Cambridge University before resigning to train for ministry in the Church of England. Earlier this year, he was awarded the 2002 Templeton Prize for progress in religion\u2026 Polkinghorne on whether science \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/11\/25\/the-faith-of-a-scientist\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThe Faith of a Scientist\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}