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Wow! Hidell got one almost right. Christians don't talk about it because in the end, we have our
faith. We're not looking for something to put our faith in.
I agree with you that Quantam Physics are incredible scientific proof of God. By the way God &
Allah are the same guy. The religions are different. Jews believe in the same God as well.
So, you must have recently watched "What the bleep do we know?" |
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This is how I think of it. Let's say we let a chicken egg hatch in a specially-constructed cage. The
chicken emerges. It cannot see us. It is alone. The cage, the artificial construct we have created,
is the only world it knows. It will live its entire life here. Let's say we put a button somewhere
in the cage and, whenever the chicken presses it, a pellet of food drops out from the top of the
cage.
The chicken comes to regard the relation between the pressing of the button and a pellet of food
dropping down as one of the fundamental laws of its universe. To the chicken, it is like the sun
rising every morning and setting every night. Then one day, let's say we decide not to fill up the
food pellet machine any more. The chicken is distraught. What it thought of as a fundamental law of
the universe is revealed to be nothing more than an arbitrary artificial relation imposed by a
higher power. This is how I regard some of the experimental results in quantum theory.
In my adult life, this has been one of the few things to make me take seriously the possible
existence of a "creator". Note that even this creator-centred interpretation of the experimental
results wouldn't necessarily indicate anything about the nature of this creator. It would,
presumably, just be as powerful a proof of Allah as it would of the Christian God. Or it could be
interpreted in other ways.
For example, to me it appears to validate Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument - the view that the
world we live in is a simulation. In this case, the "creator" could be nothing but a human being
living probably several centuries from now running our world as a simulation on his computer.
Quantum theory is hard to understand so I suppose this is why the Christians don't talk about it. |
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28 Apr 2008 14:33
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