Questions of Truth and Quantum Theory (Religion)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, March 06, 2009, 19:29 (5535 days ago) @ Mark

Mark wrote: "One area where science does require faith is the assumption that things will behave the same way tomorrow as they do today." - This is not "faith" in the sense of faith in God. It is simply a philosophical necessity. Surely religious people work on this assumption too! If we can take nothing for granted then existence would surely be a rather too exciting roller-coaster. - Mark also says: "/// there is no conceivable means to get from the physical to the personal." But our physical and personal natures are very closely related, and scientific study (e.g. in neurology) is finding out the relationships in more detail every day. - Mark concludes: "/// Christian faith should not be dismissed on the ground that it is mysterious and contrary to common sense to believe, for example, that God became incarnate, for the physical world at its most fundamental level is so mysterious and counter-intuitive ///." - If Hewish meant this he should have said it. But it is still no argument to say that things "mysterious and contrary to common sense should not be dismissed", on that basis we should be perpetually mystified and confused. We have to dismiss much and the way we do that is by looking at all the evidence and filtering out the more improbable unsupported claims.

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GPJ