A physicist’s belief. John Polkinghorne’s consonance of theology and science
Abstract
This contribution is a translated, edited and much abbreviated version of chapter 2 in Andreas Losch, Jenseits der Konflikte. I thank the publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht for the permission to make use of the material.References
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