Arthur Peacocke

In his early career as a scientist researching the physical chemistry of biological macromolecules, Peacocke studied DNA. But after 25 years, he left science for religion, becoming a priest for the Church of England. There, his mission was to help Christians understand that science and religion can mix: both try to depict reality, and both must be open to critical investigation. "The search for intelligibility that characterises science and the search for meaning that characterises religion are two necessary intertwined strands of the human enterprise and are not opposed," Peacocke argued. For instance, Darwinian evolution, he said, is consistent with the idea of God, and indeed helps explain creation. Evolution is not an evil to be dismissed as heretical, he said, but is rather a "disguised friend". He founded the Ramsey Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religious Beliefs in Relation to the Sciences and Medicine at Oxford University in 1985, and won the 2001 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion -- and donated most of the prize money to the Ramsey Centre. The Reverend Canon Arthur Peacocke, MBE, PhD, died October 21. He was 81. From This is True for 22 October 2006 Suggestions for further reading: Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation by John Hagee Amazon Price: $15.63 Customer Review: This book is a well written book correlating the bible with what is going on in the world today. It is a quick easy read. Hagee tells us that we are in the end times. We need to make sure that we remember why we were put on this Earth.. It is...   Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion by David Barton Amazon Price: $9.32 Customer Review: everyone who can read needs this book in their library, teach this in every school!   Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson Ph.D., with Richard Mendius MD Amazon Price: $12.21 Customer Review: WITH BUDDHA'S BRAIN . . . Your neural networks you'll retrain; In time you'll learn not to complain; You'll modulate distress and pain; Strife and anger you'll disdain; From old addictions you'll abstain And...   Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Sel... by Marilynne Robinson Amazon Price: $16.32 Customer Review: It was Whitehead, as I recall, who said, "The sole purpose of reading is to force the mind to do its own thinking." Absence of Mind can do that. Whether you agree with the premises, observations and conclusions may be less important than that this ...   Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant by David Barton Amazon Price: $3.95 Customer Review: If true Americans ever want to take our country back from the lying atheists on the Left, we must inoculate children to the lies they are being taught in public schools by educating them about our founding fathers and the Constitution. David Barton ...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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