Against this, Freeman J. Dyson called Polkinghorne's arguments on theology and natural science " polished and logically coherent.

The Polkinghorne Reader ( edited by Thomas Jay Oord ) provides key excerpts from Polkinghorne's most influential books.

Blackburn writes that he finished Polkinghorne's books in " despair at humanity's capacity for self-deception.

" The novelist Simon Ings, writing in the New Scientist, said Polkinghorne's argument for the proposition that God is real is cogent and his evidence elegant.

Although he improved on the arching of his father's instruments, by and large they are inferior and no match for the greatest maker of his day, Antonio Stradivari.

Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals ( ODIs ), has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.

" Laurence Olivier himself said: " Brando acted with an empathy and an instinctual understanding that not even the greatest technical performers could possibly match.

Muttiah Muralitharan (; ) ( also spelt as Muralidaran ; born 1972 ), often referred to as Murali, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack in 2002.

Clement called Catherine's betrothal to Henry II of France | Henry of Orléans " the greatest match in the world ".

His 270 runs won the match for Australia and has been rated the greatest innings of all time.

The European success came after first beating, Inter Bratislava and Fortuna Sittard, Everton defeated German giants Bayern Munich 3 – 1 in the semi-finals, despite trailing at half time ( in a match voted the greatest in Goodison Park history ) and recorded the same scoreline over Austrian club Rapid Vienna in the final.

It was decided in its very last match, of which United States Captain Sam Snead later said " This is the greatest golf match you have ever seen in England ".

Once one of these conditions is met, the match is over and the winner is the player that accumulated the greatest number of frags.

The latter double album had cover art to match the greatest hits album, and was half new material and half compilation, focusing on ( but not restricted to ) instrumental music.

Another highlight in this period, which some Owls fans regard as the greatest match ever played by the team, was a 5 – 4 win over Manchester United at Hillsborough on August 31st 1968.

Interestingly, Platini would consider this match the greatest memory of his career.

At the end of October 1917, Lyons managed to secure a match against the country's greatest team, the Canton Bulldogs, who had the legendary Jim Thorpe as their star attraction.

Afterwards United States team Captain Sam Snead said " This is the greatest golf match you have ever seen in England ".

" There are those in golf who would argue into next month that the final two rounds of the 1977 British Open were the greatest head-to-head golf match ever played.

A gunman on an open field armed with only a single-shot weapon was no match for a charging knight on a horseback ; however, from behind a castle wall, or from within the enclosure of the wagenburg, massed and disciplined gunmen could use the handgun to its greatest potential.

In the second test of a three match test series against Australia at Kolkata in 2001, Dravid joined hands with VVS Laxman to produce one of the greatest comeback victories in the history of the game.

His greatest weakness was a fragile nervous system and erratic temperament, but when he maintained his concentration during a match, he could conjure up the most devastating tennis, being regarded as a tennis magician or an artist creating with great originality and panache.

Many critics believed that, given the conditions, match situation and pressure, this was the greatest innings of Hobbs ' career.

In 1915, there was the greatest comeback ever seen in a football match in Brazil.

They also saw an instant classic where fellow Texans Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker did battle in perhaps the greatest match in WrestleMania history.

This match was regarded by Hall-of-Famer John McEnroe as the greatest women's match ever played at the US Open.

* Player with the greatest number of league goals in a single match: Kevin Cooper, scoring 4 on 21 April 2004 in an 8 – 0 win over Cove in the Combined Counties League Premier Division.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

The Congo, in whose cause he died, was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs.

What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.

I must know that that was my greatest weakness underlined three times.

During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.

Now when Henri was just 12 he was only 4' 10'' '' tall and weighed an astounding 72 pounds, and his greatest desire was to pack on some weight.

Artur Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart players of all time, and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

The greatest source of trouble was rain which had repeatedly flowed from openings above, soaking the surface and leaving streaks of dissolved lime, very conspicuous even after cleaning, particularly in the `` Landing of Columbus '', `` Oglethorpe and the Indians '', and `` Yorktown ''.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

The present church was built in the 1700s and the graveyard contains memorials to the victims of two of Achill's greatest tragedies, the Kirchintilloch Fire ( 1937 ) and the Clew Bay Drowning ( 1894 ).