From David Snoke at the Christian Scientific Society:
Some people gave me feedback that this was the best CSS meeting ever. We had a great time discussing both the strange science of quantum mechanics, and some of the implications for religion …
Erica Carlson gave a great introduction to the strangeness of QM. She argued strongly against the idea that our minds control reality, as some “new age” writers have argued. Rather, our minds at most control the set of questions that measurement may give answers to. More.
The Society now has a Facebook page.
See also: At Scientific American: “Inexplicable lab results may be telling us we’re on the cusp of a new scientific paradigm” This doesn’t sound like the same universe as that of perceptronium, the supposed material essence of consciousness. One of Kastrup’s books is Why Materialism Is Baloney. Of course materialism is baloney but we don’t usually see this kind of thing in Scientific American.
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Christian Scientific Society: Can predatory animals be seen as “evil”?
Very interesting link, touching on subjects we’ve been discussing.
Some quotes:
I made a comment about the above point recently, by the way.
as to this from post 1:
So the belief that we have souls and minds and the belief that God can do miracles is to be considered as outlandish as the claim that people can bend spoons and that there are an infinite number of copies of us in parallel universes?
Might I suggest the belief that we are soulless/mindless zombies and the belief that God does not do miracles is a FAR MORE outlandish claim than the claim the He does do miracles and that we do have souls and minds????
A God who does not do miracles is no God at all and is, in reality, a figment of man’s imagination. ,,, Effectively a dead God. Might I further suggest that the only reason someone would want to discount the reality of THE living God Who created everything that exists and Who does indeed do miracles in our lives when He so well sees fit, and to even discount the reality of our own souls and minds, (which is the most sure thing we can possibly know about reality!), is that they do not want to be accountable to God?
Regardless of how some people may want Quantum Mechanics to behave so as to confirm their preconceived desire that they are soulless/mindless zombies who are not accountable to the living God Who performs miracles as He so well sees fit, Quantum Mechanics simply refuses to conform to their preconceived desires. Quantum mechanics, in fact, offers VERY strong empirical evidence for both the fact that God sustains this universe in its continual existence and for the fact that we have souls and/or minds that are not reducible to temporal materialistic explanations.
A few notes to that effect:
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What has always struck me, for as long as I’ve been aware of the verbal descriptions of QM, accessible to laymen, as being the biggest game-changer imaginable, is that QM has introduced paradoxes, front and centre.
It, at least, ought to have been the death of the scientism and materialism blinding the metaphysic of the atheist ‘scientists’. It cries Mystery from the roof-tops at the very foundation of our material world – leaving aside the immaterial, spiritual and psychological therein.
As Christians, we cherish them in physics, since we know that physicists once accepting them, use them as spring-boards, from which to sally further into the mysteries between here and the infinite and eternal.