Remembering Arthur Peacocke, MBE

“Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.”  (Arthur Peacocke)

One of the most interesting recent thinkers on the subject of the relationship between science and religion was Arthur Peacocke (d. 2006).  Over the course of his very distinguished career, he served as, among other things, both University Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and Dean of Studies in Theology at Clare College, Cambridge.

The very existence of such people as Arthur Peacocke, who reached rarified heights in both the sciences and theology, constitutes a problem — or, anyway, it would if they ever really thought about it — for those who insist that science and religious faith are intrinsically incompatible.  He actually knew a bit about both, and didn’t seem to share the skeptics’ view.