Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science and Religion Book

I've only given a handful of books 5 stars and this one got it right from the beginning. Absolutely stunning writing and argumentation from polkinghorne. The scientific information is given in such a way that you don't have to be knowledge of particle physics, quarks, electron spin, or binding energy to see his points.

There's something to be said of a philosophical position that regulates the deity that created all things into a necessarily deistic position. That is, by avoiding the pothole naturalistic Darwinism (which we should), we run into the tree of naturalism itself. Or said theologically, literal six-day creationism still needs a seventh day of rest. If it's a materialistic rest, we are left with deism. If it's a spiritualistic rest, we are left with naturalism. Charting a course between these positions seems to me to be most diligent to the text of scripture and most cognisant of the scientific information we now possess.