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Rev. KEVIN FLYNN is an Anglican priest and director of the Anglican studies program at Saint Paul University.
I know very little about quantum physics and probably misunderstand a great deal even of that. The writer from whom I've learned most is Sir John Polkinghorne. Polkinghorne is an Anglican priest and theologian, a quantum physicist, fellow of the Royal Society and winner of the Templeton prize. Author of many books, his Quarks, Chaos and Christianity: Questions to Science and Religion, is a stimulating discussion of issues both scientific and theological. He is the very type of the believer who quests after truth wherever it may be found.
Thus he writes, "Many people seem to think that faith involves shutting one's eyes, gritting one's teeth, and believing X impossible things before breakfast ... Not at all! Faith may involve a leap, but it's a leap into the light, not the dark. The aim of the religious quest, like that of the scientific quest, is to seek motivated belief about what is the case ..." He contends that theologians and scientists have much in common in the intellectual rigour both require for their inquiry.
Many people will likely appreciate Polkinghorne's ability to bridge the gaps between science and faith. Even more, perhaps, will share with him the great sense of wonder and awe that a study of this amazing universe gives rise to. Quantum physics pushes us to see ourselves, not as discreet individuals, but as members of a complex lattice-work of relationships. Indeed, relatedness goes beyond human beings and connects everything. At times, it's difficult to know whether one is reading theology or religion; it can seem more like poetry. Perhaps that's the most helpful dimension of quantum physics: that it break us out of world views, either scientific or religious, which limit vision and thus proscribe hope.
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