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The Templeton Prize Web site offers more information about the prize, past winners, and Peacocke. There's also a video of Peacocke receiving the prize.

A brief biography of Peacocke is available from PBS's Faith and Reason Web site.

A Peacocke article for The Tablet, "Darwin: Friend Not Foe," is available at the Roman Catholic British magazine's Web site and elsewhere.

Other media coverage of The Templeton Prize includes:

Religion Prize Won by Priest Much Involved with Science | The Rev. Arthur Peacocke, a Church of England priest and theologian who holds a doctorate in physical biochemistry, will receive the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. (The New York Times)

DNA Pioneer, Theologian Wins Religion Prize (The Washington Post)

Templeton Winner Urges Scientific Freedom to Fight Disease | Peacocke backs genetic manipulation of human DNA and some forms of cloning (The Washington Post)

Biochemist-theologian unites Darwin and divinity | For third year in a row, Templeton Prize for progress in religion goes to a scientist. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Templeton Prize (RealAudio, 14.4 kbps or 28.8 kpbs) | Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered talks with Arthur Peacocke, an Englishman who won this year's Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Peacocke is a theologian and a scientist.

$1-Million Templeton Prize Goes to British Priest | Anglican cleric Arthur Peacocke also is a biochemist. His dual calling has led him to call for a theology that melds meaning and knowledge. (Los Angeles Times)

Priest wins science accolade (The Times, London)

Biochemist Wins Religion Prize (Associated Press)

Christianity Today and Books & Culture articles on past Templeton Prize winners include:

Physicist Wins Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion | Freeman Dyson, "midwife of Quantum Electrodynamics," futurist, and popularizer of science, honored for work on responsible science. (CT, Mar. 22, 2000)

The Universe Has a Mind of Its Own | A conversation with Templeton Prize-winner Freeman Dyson. (B&C, Nov/Dec 2000)

The Unthinkable | Paul Davies uses the G-Word, but leaves little room for God. (B&C, Sept./Oct. 1999)

Physicist Ian Barbour Wins Religion Award (CT, Apr. 26, 1999)

Bill Bright's Wonderful Plan for the World | Evangelicalism's power couple closes in on their radical mission. (CT, Jul, 14, 1997)

Books & Culture Corner appears Mondays at ChristianityToday.com. Earlier Books & Culture Corners include:

Are Scientists Taking Orders from Pat Robertson? | A Salon.com essay accuses the Intelligent Design movement of being primarily an arm of "conservative Republicans" and the "religious right." (Mar. 5, 2000)

Had Morse No Code? | Like much popular art, the finale of Inspector Morse functions like a dream of the collective unconscious. (Feb. 26, 2001)

Beware the Women! | A conspiracy theorist claims the church is becoming too "feminized." (Feb. 19, 2001)

Return to the Father's House | Touchstone magazine examines God the Father and human fatherhood. (Feb. 12, 2001)

What's the University For? | In James Davison Hunter's The Hedgehog Review, academics nibble on the hands that feed them. (Feb. 5, 2001)

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary? | Experiencing Marian devotion as a Protestant (Jan. 29, 2001)

Opening the Mind of Science | Science Goes Postmodern, Part 2 (Jan. 22, 2001)

Science Goes Postmodern | David Foster Wallace creates math melodrama with his essay-review. (Jan. 15, 2001)

On Being Human, Part 3 | Did Natural History swallow an unscientific argument because it explained human experience in evolutionary terms? (Jan. 8, 2001)

On Being Human, Part 2 | Learning from information rather than instinct is often harder than it looks. (Dec. 18, 2000)

On Being Human | Natural History magazine celebrates a milestone. (Dec. 11, 2000)

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