Nov. 5, 2006

Religion and Science

By Harry T. Cook:

Science (the word comes from the Latin for knowledge) is the intellectual discipline of exploring the natural order for information about how it works and why.

Response [1]:

And it’s great for exploring the natural order. It gets really tangled though in dealing with the metaphysical.

And [2]:

It gets really tangled at the quantum physics level…quantum entanglements are quite beyond anyone’s full understanding.

How can one photon pass through two slits in a diffraction grating?

How can a particle of mass, here on Earth interact gravitationally with every other particle of mass in the multiverse? What is the “go-between?”

If one measures a quantum particle’s momentum, its position can not be known. It could be anywhere in the universe.

Why must we conclude that the spiritual realm is entirely separated from the physical? We don’t understand the physical realm nearly well enough to justify such a conclusion.