{"id":847,"date":"2003-03-03T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T03:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/03\/the-cold-reaches-of-heaven\/"},"modified":"2003-03-03T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T03:45:03","slug":"the-cold-reaches-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/03\/the-cold-reaches-of-heaven","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Reaches of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sojourner Magazine<\/a> just ran an article about Nobel laureate William Phillips called The Cold Reaches of Heaven<\/a>. Phillips is a Christian, and he has something interesting to say about the relationship between science and religion:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not an anomaly,\u201d he says emphatically. \u201cIn fact, I would say that if you were to ask, the majority of physicists would answer that they believe in God in one form or another. Maybe not in exactly the same way that I do, because I believe in a personal God, but God in one form or another.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

in a later section he comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I want to know how the universe went through its stages of development, I ask observational astronomy and theoretical cosmology,\u201d says Phillips. \u201cIf I want to know why are we here, why is there a universe in the first place, or what is the nature of my relationship to my Creator, I turn to the Bible. But when I study cosmology as a science, when I study physics, one of the things that I learn is that there are very clear, beautifully simple laws that describe almost everything that I observe. I see that kind of simplicity and beauty, and I think, this is a put-up job, this didn\u2019t happen by chance.\u201d Phillips laughs.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a way in which science informs my faith. I don\u2019t want to compartmentalize them, but I am clear that there are questions that are well-posed to science and questions that are well-posed to religion. But they\u2019re not completely separate entities.\u201d<\/p>\n

FYI: I\u2019ve updated our list of famous scientists who are Christian<\/a> with a link to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sojourner Magazine just ran an article about Nobel laureate William Phillips called The Cold Reaches of Heaven. Phillips is a Christian, and he has something interesting to say about the relationship between science and religion: \u201cI\u2019m not an anomaly,\u201d he says emphatically. \u201cIn fact, I would say that if you were to ask, the majority \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThe Cold Reaches of Heaven\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-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}