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science the grounding methodology. By placing a resurrected, and presumably divine and still living, Christ within
the scope of objective history, he finds it reasonable to hope for a developing, but nonevolutionary, future. In this
future new creation, there is no transient coming-to-be, but rather complete fulfillment. Thus he is able to
simultaneously justify the presence of evil in this present creation and to retain a benevolent God by incorporating a
modified evolutionary cosmology and a scripturally based eschaton within his system of thought. Thus Polkinghorne
has achieved what he believes to be a "versimiltudinous grasp of reality," a grasp of reality that is faithful to both
science and divine revelation.