Volume 45, Number 9 · May 28, 1998
Is God in the Lab?
By Freeman Dyson
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
by Richard P. Feynman
Addison-Wesley, 133 pp., $22.00
Belief in God in an Age of Science
by John Polkinghorne
Yale University Press, 138 pp., $18.00
Here are two famous scientists expressing their opinions about science and religion. Richard Feynman gave a series of Danz Lectures at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1963. John Polkinghorne gave a series of Terry Lectures at Yale University in 1996. Two characters as different as it is possible to be, Polkinghorne the conscientious academic scholar, Feynman the impulsive rebel. Polkinghorne prepared the text of his lectures carefully for publication, giving us a polished and logically coherent argument. Feynman was invited to prepare a text for the University of Washington Press to publish in 1963, but never did. The University of Washington recorded the lectures and preserved the tapes.
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