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> [Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/humanity-could-only-have-survived-and-flourished-if-it-held-social/)

[Arthur Peacocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-peacocke/)

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## More by Arthur Peacocke

> [God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/god-is-creating-at-every-moment-of-the-world-s-existence-in-and/)

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> [In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/in-the-nineteenth-century-many-anglican-theologians-both-evangelical/)

[Arthur Peacocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-peacocke/)

> [Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/humanity-could-only-have-survived-and-flourished-if-it-held-social/)

[Arthur Peacocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-peacocke/)

> [The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses upon us a dynamic picture of the world of entities, structures and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/the-scientific-perspective-of-the-world-especially-the-living-world/)

[Arthur Peacocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-peacocke/)

> [We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/we-are-the-first-generation-of-human-beings-to-have-substantial/)

[Arthur Peacocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-peacocke/)

> [Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/classical-philosophical-theism-maintained-the-ontological-distinction/)

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> [Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/such-an-emphasis-on-the-immanence-of-god-as-creator-in-with-and-under/)

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> [For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/for-many-decades-now-and-certainly-during-my-adult-life-in-academe/)

[Arthur Peacocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-peacocke/)

> [The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-peacocke/the-scientific-perspective-of-the-world-especially-the-living-world-2/)

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