New atheist Sam Harris explains why he thinks but little of old-fashioned theistic evolutionist John Polkinghorne
New atheist and PhD neuroscientist Sam Harris on theistic evolutionist John Polkinghorne:
… here is Polkinghorne describing the physics of the coming resurrection of the dead:
If we regard human beings as psychosomatic unities, as I believe both the Bible and contemporary experience of the intimate connection between mind and brain encourage us to do, then the soul will have to be understood in an Aristotelian sense as the “form,” or information-bearing pattern, of the body. Though this pattern is dissolved at death it seems perfectly rational to believe that it will be remembered by God and reconstituted in a divine act of resurrection. Read More ›