I though the explanation of the mutation of genetic information in DNA through quantum effects superb. I wonder what effect quantum physics might be having on the neurons in our brain and how we interpret the world around us ?
While I think it's understandable for some to try and understand these things,I would estimate that both the subjects,(and the understanding that may come at some point),are,and will be, completely irrelevant to the vast majority of human beings on this planet. I would prefer to see these great minds working on successfully solving the problems that exist today,before they squander their intellect on theoretical science purely for the sake of knowledge. For instance,rather than try to replicate the Big Bang,they could pop round here and explain why my Triumph runs as sweet as a sewing machine right up to the point I go for an ambitious overtake and then as soon as I pull out and get halfway past the fooker pops and bangs like a bastad,leaving me with an arse clench so tight I've got the seat cover trapped between my cheeks,and a burning desire to hurl the damn thing into a ditch and walk home....
To reprise the exchange, you said: "OK, some of you are willing to consider QP because it interests you, but you are not willing to consider, in this instance, religion." I said: "I consider religion often; in fact I spend a lot of my time considering religion. Why do you say "not willing to consider ... religion"? Are those words based on anything?" You said: "It is quickly dismissed, I've no idea why, so I asked the question." That seems to mean that your words were not actually based on anything. So I took it as a no. Is that clear enough?
Religion is always a subject best avoided. Those followers of religion cannot be convinced through logical argument and those that dismiss it cannot be convinced through what ever it is that religious people say. It's never going to change and it's very personal. I'm glad we live in a country where we can all think what we like. If only someone would stop the Jehovas from knocking on my door, we'd be all set.
How can you claim to be presenting a logical argument when putting forward a supportive view of religion? There is no logic to it, surely?
Time is a system of measurement in the same manner as the metre, the kilogram and temperature defined by eternal and provable constants in the world of physics. It's not the same thing
Give us a chance! I've had 50 years to evaluate the Bible ... I haven't even had 50 minutes to get my head around QB!
Me and @Chris share our fence with this fella Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Einstein is probably the best known and most highly revered scientist of the twentieth century, and is associated with major revolutions in our thinking about time, gravity, and the conversion of matter to energy (E=mc2). Although never coming to belief in a personal God, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in "Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists." This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: "I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." Einstein's famous epithet on the "uncertainty principle" was "God does not play dice" - and to him this was a real statement about a God in whom he believed. A famous saying of his was "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
