Here's a tidbit from the NYT that you might find interesting.
Dr. Peacocke has written several books on science and religion, among them "Paths From Science Towards God," to be published in April by Oneworld, a British publisher. In it, he argues that scientific discoveries open "fresh vistas on God for human perception and life" and that Christian theology ought to welcome such challenges as vital stimulation for theology itself.
Indeed, he writes, if Christianity is to be more evangelical and its belief system widely respected as "a vehicle of public truth," churches will have to be open to an understanding of the world as shaped by science.
In an interview, Dr. Peacocke said he regarded science and religion as intertwined. "One strand is the search for intelligibility," he said of science. "The other strand is the search for meaning."
He said he viewed discoveries related to biological evolution as a boon to religious belief, not a threat. What Darwin put forward and others have elaborated on, he said, allows believers to argue that God is a continuing, intimately involved presence in the world's progressing creation. That, he said, counters a belief common among the deists of an earlier era that God, having created the world, then had no more to do with it.
March 9, 2001
Religion Prize Won by Priest Much Involved With Science
By GUSTAV NIEBUHR
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