Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

:) It is funny for me to read the musings of people attempting to forge a syncretism of physics and quantum mechanics with theology.

It invariably leads to fuzzy language and buzzwords being used as glue between disparate fields of knowledge.

Towards the end she warns against backsliding into atheism just because the silly aspects of religion have been debunked.

But to be honest religions like Christianity have changed very little, and every generation new crops of people appear and read the texts literally and think the world is 6000 years old by retroactively calculating begats and by fuzzy maths.

If the science they want to harness to sell books is really going to usher in new understanding of what lies behind the veil, and what lies within us, it will have to do it like it solved every other problem from wobbly suns to nuclear energy: not assume, and base hypothesis on observation, and not bronze-age prophetic writings.

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Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

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