Quantum Leap uses key events in the life of Polkinghorne to introduce the central ideas that make science and religion such a fascinating field of investigation. Sir John Polkinghorne is a British particle physicist who, after 25 years of research and discovery in academia, resigned his post to become an Anglican priest and theologian. He was a professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1974. As a physicist he participated in the research that led to the discovery of the quark, the smallest known particle. This cheerful biography-cum-appraisal of his life and work uses Polkinghorne’s story to approach some of the most important questions: a scientist’s view of God; why we pray, and what we expect; does the universe have a point?; moral and scientific laws; what happens next?
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Contents
Prologue 6
Chapter One: Intellectual Suicide 9
Chapter Two: Room for Reality 35
Chapter Three: Droplets of Grace 63
Chapter Four: Regime Change 81
Chapter Five: Here and There 100
Chapter Six: Law and Order 121
Chapter Seven: Life after Life 136
Chapter Eight: In Particular 157
Conclusion: Icon 178
Epilogue 182
Acknowledgments 186
Notes 187
About the author
Karl Giberson, a physicist, is the director of the Forum on Faith and Science at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, and author of ‘Saving Darwin’.
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