Physicist Paul Davies’s Contributions to the Advancement of Religion, As Seen By Father Mariano Artigas

In 1995, the physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies was presented with a John Templeton Foundation award. This foundation awards individuals who’ve made a “significant contribution to the advancement of religion”. The priest and physicist Mariano Artigas wrote a piece on Davies’s award. After asking “why was [the unconventionally religious] Davies awarded the award?”, he then went on to say that they did indeed share various religious ideas about human beings and their…