If The Experience Of Science

People, And Especially Theologians, Should Try To Familiarize Themselves With Scientific Ideas. Of Course, Science Is Technical In Many Respects, But There Are Some Very Good Books That Try To Set Out Some Of The Conceptual Structure Of Science.

I'm A Very Passionate Believer In The Unity Of Knowledge. There Is One World Of Reality - One World Of Our Experience That We're Seeking To Describe.

Theology Differs From Science In Many Respects, Because Of Its Different Subject Matter, A Personal God Who Cannot Be Put To The Test In The Way That The Impersonal Physical World Can Be Subjected To Experimental Enquiry. Yet Science And Theology Have This In Common, That Each Can Be, And Should Be Defended As Being Investigations Of What Is, The Search For Increasing Verisimilitude In Our Understanding Of Reality.

Quantum Theory Also Tells Us That The World Is Not Simply Objective; Somehow It's Something More Subtle Than That. In Some Sense It Is Veiled From Us, But It Has A Structure That We Can Understand.

Of Course, Einstein Was A Very Great Scientist Indeed, And I Have Enormous Respect For Him, And Great Admiration For The Discoveries He Made. But He Was Very Committed To A View Of The Objectivity Of The Physical World.