John Polkinghorne

It must be linked to the eternal.

The contemporary scientist John Polkinghorne, he's a high-level particle physicist.

He's also an Anglican priest.

He's revived Thomas' idea this way.

And so if you read the title of whatever I'm going to call this reaction, you, you know why we have to talk about this video.

So this one is called Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James tour three scientists on the origins of everything.

Oh, boy, you guys.

So Stephen Meyer is going to talk about the origin of the universe.

He got his own video in the Discovery Institute.

playlist and then i've mentioned him a bunch of times in other content james tour of course is my most popular uh back and forth with any of these asshats uh i have single-handedly completely ruined his credibility and he has now been reduced essentially to the mr farina meme that is uh if it was possible to put a a video clip on a tombstone that would be that would be where that would go So Mr. Farina is, of course, his doing and and probably his greatest legacy, having coined that.

And then John Lennox, I actually did a reaction video with Planet Peterson, I think, about John Lennox.

So we've made fun of him as well.

He's no longer with us, but a very famous...

Cambridge physicist and philosophical and theological thinker won many awards for this, called John Polkinghorne.

And he very much comes down on the side of the fact that we do have a significant degree of free will, and he's approaching that both as a theologian but also as a physicist, a mathematical physicist.

He said this, he said, the free will defence in relation to moral evil, i.e. whether or not we can make good choices, asserts that a world with a possibility of sinful people is better than one with perfectly programmed machines.

You have an enormous courage.

There are times when I read about you facing off against those that are the most strident atheists, and you've mentioned already Hitchens, but Dawkins and others, your scientific peers who might bring into question the what you might have said, and I was thinking of somebody else I knew, know very well, Sir John Polkinghorne, who, you know, used to, I actually had him come and preach in Toronto for me, you know, that he faced the same sort of rejection, sometimes by his peers, sometimes by those in the church.

And I mean, and that was brought out in your book.

Where does your John Lennox courage come from? Because that really struck me in this book.

Which option you take then, God or no God, is a matter of choosing something for which there is no scientific proof either way.

Sir John Polkinghorne is one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

He's now retired from science and is an Anglican priest.

He believes that God stands apart from physics.

I think of God like the square root of minus one, an imaginary number that we can't prove but that somehow changes something within the context of how it is that deep space telescopy occurs.

John Polkinghorne is great on this re-regarding, um, imaginary numbers and their job in the mathematics for things that otherwise would be impossible.

So an imaginary number makes a previously impossible thing possible, and perhaps you could say something similar-

Hmm