John Polkinghorne

Being a Christian I find it hard not to enjoy listening to John Polkinghorne's studies, thoughts, and conclusions. He comes off as a very well educated man with a good balance in his specific studies in physics, but also in religion, history, and science. He has some interesting insight into the historical egotistic mindset of scientific sub-groups after a very important discovery, such as the physicists after Newton's discoveries. I think that before we start claiming that religion should be extinct, we should be smart and rational and wait things out a little bit. Too many times we think we know everything and we make huge decisions on the small amount of information that we actually have. There is too much information which points us towards the importance of both science and religion, and John Polkinghorne has been able to see the importance of both and he clings to both. They are both very important things in his life, two of the most important. He has studied many years and has seen incredible order and balance in our universe. The example of the 10 marksmen standing there waiting to fire and upon the order you find you are not dead. The improbable and nearly impossible possibility of it happening calls for an explanation.
Moreover, the idea of quantum physics allows us to begin to open up our minds to understand that there IS more to this universe than our eyes and logic allow us to understand. The testing and understanding of quantum physics needs a different rationality and logic, therefore our rationality and logic is illogical in the quantum world. If it is illogical there, where else, and what else do we not have any idea. We should not be so quick to discard things like religion and God until we can disprove that which leads us to believe it to be true. We must keep ourselves open to the possibility if we are not believers in God, even if that means we put almost all our believe in the fact that there isn't. Keeping a possibility open allows us to never restrict the possibilities of our results.