13 years ago, a Tulane physicist told me I didn’t understand the laws of physics.
That’s why, he said, I can’t see why the Singularity is inevitable. Or why it’s perfectly compatible with Christianity.
Fair enough.
Dr. Frank J. Tipler is the cosmologist behind the Omega Point. He is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University, and the author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The Physics of Immortality, and The Physics of Christianity.
He didn’t come on Singularity FM to soften his views. He came to defend them.
In one hour we covered:
Why he is both a physics imperialist and a fundamentalist The Cosmological Singularity, the Technological Singularity, and the Omega Point His personal journey from Christian fundamentalism, through agnosticism and atheism, and back to Christianity Why most physicists are good atheists but bad scientists Mind-uploading, immortality, determinism, and quantum consciousness.
His thesis is simple. The laws of physics demand the Singularity. The laws of physics demand resurrection. The laws of physics demand God.
His favorite line from our conversation still lands:
“If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!”
Maybe he’s right. Maybe, 13 years later, I still don’t understand the laws of physics.
Either way, the conversation is worth your hour.
Frank J. Tipler on the singularity and immortality: ‘If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!’