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Article: Belief in God in an Age of Science.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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John Polkinghorne. Yale University Press. [pounds]14.95. 133 pages. ISBN 0-300-07294-5.
Discussions about science and religion, while often quite interesting, have always seemed to be pointless and unreal. Furthermore, the views of the opposite sides in such discussions are frequently very emotional, much more so than is the case in discussions of other subjects. Even scientists, widely thought to be coldly unemotional people, often become quite heated when discussing religion.
Why do I say that discussions of science and religion are pointless? Simply because they are two subjects that are dealing with different subject matters and it strikes me that ...