Albert Einstein, who is often dishonestly characterized as having been an atheist, agreed
that God-denial is foolishness. He once said of non-believers: “The
fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of
their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are
creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the
‘opium of the masses’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
“I’m
not an atheist,” added Einstein. “The problem involved is too vast for
our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a
huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not
understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t
know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most
intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously
arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.” ~ An excerpt from article by Matt Barber, titled "Big Bang Blows Atheism Sky High..." - April 26, 2016.
In
Romans 1:20, “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power
and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation
of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without
excuse.”
Illustrious NASA scientist (and agnostic) Dr. Robert Jastrow (1925-2008) put
it this way: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of
reason, the story ends like a bad dream. How? As he scaled the mountain of ignorance and was about to conquer the highest peak pulling himself over
the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting
there for centuries.”
One can see that the mountain is the same for both...a mountain of ignorance. Both meet at the top and both thinking they made it using their know-how their knowledge. What it means is exactly what Einstein said, “The problem involved is too vast for
our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a
huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not
understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t
know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most
intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously
arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”
As Einstein also said, "there is no such thing as no thing" As the young child understands, things come from something. There is a Creator, can we understand the Creator in his entirety? No more than an ant could understand us if we picked it up and held it gently in our hand.
The Bible tells us, those that do not have the mind of a child will not enter heaven. And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" ~ Matthew 18:3.
*"Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him
before My Father who is in heaven. "But whoever denies Me before men, I
will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven ~ Matthew
10:32-33. "If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe
in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" ~
Romans 10:9.
Quantum
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
Creation vs Evolution in the Social Quantum Imagination ~ What makes us Human?
It is interesting to imagine a group of scientists sitting around discussing life and or the cosmos and its origin with the background being or setting being their office or in the lab, or chatting at their computers ...with their gray brain material visible housed in a skeleton..or perhaps with no clothes, just the bare and even gross physical attributes of the flesh that we call human. Would anyone looking at this scene believe that what they were doing, thinking was remotely important or true? I doubt it.
So what makes us human? Isn't it what is housed in the brain, the mind. The mind is something we cannot see nor will we ever see it. Yet, somehow it arose out of nothing, out of perhaps our imagination. After all, we imagine that from a simple organism comes complexity. Doesn't anyone know that for even a simple organism to exist it needs a complex system. Who put the complex system there? Some argue a random event caused 'nature' and it was nature that evolved(s) and became complex. Really, why would it? What would encourage that, direct it even nature to move forward or be what liberals like to call progressive?
The real concern should be where is this information coming from, this information that directed nature, directed human beings to arrive on the scene or even for that matter the smallest of mindless grubs? Why should man have a mind? Why not everything else including carrots or a tree or the wind?
Information has a source. Information does not just pop out of thin air and even thin air has information that describes what it is and directs where it goes. It was informed. And, I highly doubt that I came to be in any other way. Now, you are back to nature and evolution. That it informs. Really, what informs it to be and to act? Now, you argue that it just is/does and don't I read books, don't I know science. Sure, I know science.
It exists in the mind of men! And, who put it there? Who informed them? It just evolved so you say. What for? Nothing happens without reason in a logical world... after all you say it is by evolution and evolution is a forward progress, right? You suppose evolution has a forward direction and that supposes some kind of logic in its information. Whose information? By what design is such information?
Did you know that electron,s in the Niels Bohr model of the atom, can only behave in classical motion? Which means that electrons orbit the nucleus of the atom as the earth orbits the sun. Because of that, electrons can only orbit stably, without radiating, in certain orbits at a certain discrete set of distances from the nucleus. Just as the earth can only remain stable at the distance it is from the sun.
Fascinating is the behavior of electrons which can jump from one allowed orbit to another without changing the classical model of the atom's orbit. The significance of the Bohr model is that the laws of classical mechanics apply to the motion of the electron about the nucleus only when restricted by a quantum rule.
Even more fascinating, is when we retreat to our imagining the scientists discussing this using their gray material...and you say it just evolved that way. I could agree to that but what directed it to do so?
So what makes us human? Isn't it what is housed in the brain, the mind. The mind is something we cannot see nor will we ever see it. Yet, somehow it arose out of nothing, out of perhaps our imagination. After all, we imagine that from a simple organism comes complexity. Doesn't anyone know that for even a simple organism to exist it needs a complex system. Who put the complex system there? Some argue a random event caused 'nature' and it was nature that evolved(s) and became complex. Really, why would it? What would encourage that, direct it even nature to move forward or be what liberals like to call progressive?
The real concern should be where is this information coming from, this information that directed nature, directed human beings to arrive on the scene or even for that matter the smallest of mindless grubs? Why should man have a mind? Why not everything else including carrots or a tree or the wind?
Information has a source. Information does not just pop out of thin air and even thin air has information that describes what it is and directs where it goes. It was informed. And, I highly doubt that I came to be in any other way. Now, you are back to nature and evolution. That it informs. Really, what informs it to be and to act? Now, you argue that it just is/does and don't I read books, don't I know science. Sure, I know science.
It exists in the mind of men! And, who put it there? Who informed them? It just evolved so you say. What for? Nothing happens without reason in a logical world... after all you say it is by evolution and evolution is a forward progress, right? You suppose evolution has a forward direction and that supposes some kind of logic in its information. Whose information? By what design is such information?
Did you know that electron,s in the Niels Bohr model of the atom, can only behave in classical motion? Which means that electrons orbit the nucleus of the atom as the earth orbits the sun. Because of that, electrons can only orbit stably, without radiating, in certain orbits at a certain discrete set of distances from the nucleus. Just as the earth can only remain stable at the distance it is from the sun.
Fascinating is the behavior of electrons which can jump from one allowed orbit to another without changing the classical model of the atom's orbit. The significance of the Bohr model is that the laws of classical mechanics apply to the motion of the electron about the nucleus only when restricted by a quantum rule.
Even more fascinating, is when we retreat to our imagining the scientists discussing this using their gray material...and you say it just evolved that way. I could agree to that but what directed it to do so?
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
How to Deal with Uncertainity in the Social Imagination
What is always uncertain in the social imagination is the actual continuity of it, its longevity, its eternal state. Men seek to know it for they are uncertain that there is an eternal guarantee or maybe they just reject its elusive but obvious eternal guarantee; it just being a 'matter' of choice. Talking about matter, it is elusive especially when we come to understand it in terms of quantum mechanics as the accuracy of experimental measurement is limited.Why, because energy on very tiny brief scale sis popping in and out existence ~ W. Heisenberg.
In 1927, Werner Heisenberg showed that the laws of quantum mechanics unavoidably limit the accuracy of experimental measurements. This limitation has nothing to do with how well an experiment is designed, or how accurate are the instruments used; it reflects a fundamental aspect of reality itself. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle stats that it is not possible to measure simultaneously both the momentum (mass x velocity) and the position of a particle with whatever accuracy we might wish.
There is always some error or uncertainty associated with any measurement of position, and also some uncertainty associate with any measurement of momentum. What Heisenberg discovered is that these two uncertainties are unavoidably linked together. The more accurately we try to measure the position of an electron, the more uncertain becomes our knowledge of its momentum and vice versa. When masses and dimensions have values above the atomic scale, the effects of the uncertainty principle are totally negligible. They become very significant, however, with masses and dimensions at the atomic scale. There is a limit to how close nature allows us to get! ~ M. Raspanti "The Virtual Universe..." 2000 - Chapter 9.
There is always some uncertainty associate with any measurement man can make, even man's computers. After all, there were programmed by him. But, even if they could make more accurate measurements, would we be able to understand it? That being said, can man truly understand the universe in this limited way... either limited by his own ability or limited by the truth of it proclaimed by a higher mind than his.
This is and will always be an aspect of man's mind... The social imagination is limited. I wrote about this in my doctoral dissertation on the subject of Imagination Ideal Society: Explored in the Social Imagination, through conversations on what can be an ideal society in the Occident mind. We are limited physically and in the social imagination which is embedded in a temporal corrupted 'fallen' world. I say this as the state of the universe is in a state of decay. How can we know what actually is in a pure state of being as it decays before us. We too observe this about ourselves and it is troubling. As social psychologist Alfred Schutz recognized, our troubling is steeped in the fundamental anxiety which is the fear of death.
How to deal with uncertainty in the Social Imagination. Is there way to overcome this world? Absolutely ~ Our Lord Jesus Christ. "Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God" 1 John 5:5. He who is the Creator of Heaven and Earth and all things in it. "When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them" ~ Acts 4:24.
In 1927, Werner Heisenberg showed that the laws of quantum mechanics unavoidably limit the accuracy of experimental measurements. This limitation has nothing to do with how well an experiment is designed, or how accurate are the instruments used; it reflects a fundamental aspect of reality itself. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle stats that it is not possible to measure simultaneously both the momentum (mass x velocity) and the position of a particle with whatever accuracy we might wish.
There is always some error or uncertainty associated with any measurement of position, and also some uncertainty associate with any measurement of momentum. What Heisenberg discovered is that these two uncertainties are unavoidably linked together. The more accurately we try to measure the position of an electron, the more uncertain becomes our knowledge of its momentum and vice versa. When masses and dimensions have values above the atomic scale, the effects of the uncertainty principle are totally negligible. They become very significant, however, with masses and dimensions at the atomic scale. There is a limit to how close nature allows us to get! ~ M. Raspanti "The Virtual Universe..." 2000 - Chapter 9.
There is always some uncertainty associate with any measurement man can make, even man's computers. After all, there were programmed by him. But, even if they could make more accurate measurements, would we be able to understand it? That being said, can man truly understand the universe in this limited way... either limited by his own ability or limited by the truth of it proclaimed by a higher mind than his.
This is and will always be an aspect of man's mind... The social imagination is limited. I wrote about this in my doctoral dissertation on the subject of Imagination Ideal Society: Explored in the Social Imagination, through conversations on what can be an ideal society in the Occident mind. We are limited physically and in the social imagination which is embedded in a temporal corrupted 'fallen' world. I say this as the state of the universe is in a state of decay. How can we know what actually is in a pure state of being as it decays before us. We too observe this about ourselves and it is troubling. As social psychologist Alfred Schutz recognized, our troubling is steeped in the fundamental anxiety which is the fear of death.
How to deal with uncertainty in the Social Imagination. Is there way to overcome this world? Absolutely ~ Our Lord Jesus Christ. "Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God" 1 John 5:5. He who is the Creator of Heaven and Earth and all things in it. "When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them" ~ Acts 4:24.
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