In Serious Talk (SCM Press, £7.95, ISBN 0 334 02647 4), physicist and
priest John Polkinghorne offers a calm and civilised argument that seeking truth
about the Universe is a task that demands religion as well as science. He covers
questions that every thinking person has wrestled with at some time.
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