2002 TEMPLETON PRIZE WINNER
News, Original Broadcast Date: March 15, 2002 (Show #528):

In 1972, global investor Sir John Templeton created a prize to honor the discipline of religion in the same way that the Nobel Prize honors such disciplines as economics, medicine and physics. Now known as "The Templeton Prize for Progress Towards Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities," this award recognizes a living individual who has shown originality in advancing ideas and institutions that deepen the world's understanding of God and of spiritual life and service. Host Bob Abernethy talks with the 2002 Templeton Prize Winner -- Sir John Polkinghorne, an Anglican priest and a former mathematical physicist at Cambridge University -- about the relationship between science and religion. According to Dr. Polkinghorne, "There are great perplexities about the evil and suffering in the world. But I think it helps us to realize that God has brought into being a creation to which God has given the gift of freedom. The world is not God's puppet theater in which God makes everything happen. Creatures are free to be themselves, to make themselves, and to make their own decisions."

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