{"id":78241,"date":"2018-05-04T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T17:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=78241"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:49:59","slug":"does-mystery-of-quantum-physics-prove-god-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/does-mystery-of-quantum-physics-prove-god-exists","title":{"rendered":"Does Mystery of Quantum Physics Prove God Exists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ironically, my more popular posts are ones furthest from my passion and core interests. They are larks\u2014never intended to go viral. This is about one of them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Apart from family, I typically steer clear of religious topics. I identify with a mainstream religion, but it is completely beside the purpose of Lifeboat Foundation, and it is a personal affair.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Yet, here we discuss a religious topic, after all. Let\u2019s get started\u2026<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n<strong>Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000\">Do atheists agree that the fact that we can\u2019t understand<br \/> quantum physics is at least somewhat evidence of Allah?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>An Objective Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\">Do you assert that a failure to understand something is evidence of God?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\">I don\u2019t fully understand a triple-Lutz (ice skating) or the Jessica stitch (needlepoint)\u2014and I certainly don\u2019t get why an electric dryer leaves moisture on light weight linens, when a gas dryer gets them bone-dry before the plush towels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\">Is my inability to solve these mysteries evidence of Allah (or Yahweh, haShem or Y\u2019Shewa)? Of course, not! It has nothing to do with God or religion. The fact that I don\u2019t quite grasp every complex task or unexplained science is not evidence of God, <em>it is evidence of my own ignorance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\">On the other hand, I am fortunate to understand quantum physics\u2014both academically and from an innate perspective. That is, behavior of waves and matter on a subatomic scale make perfect sense to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\">You would be correct to point out that certain quantum behavior seems to violate common sense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Probabilistic behavior. (i.e. Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat is both dead and alive at once)<\/li>\n<li>Measure photons or electrons as a wave, and it no longer behaves like particles<\/li>\n<li>Entangled electrons (Einstein called it \u2018Spooky action at a distance\u2019)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"qlink_container\"><a class=\"external_link\" href=\"http:\/\/awildduck.com\/?p=3308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The EPR Paradox<\/a><\/span> (entanglement experiment demonstrates causality based on <i>future knowledge<\/i>. It seems profoundly unbelievable!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5300 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/awildduck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Annuit_Coeptis-s-t.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"188\" \/>But these things only seem strange, because we do not experience them first hand given our size and our senses. As the math and the mechanisms are understood through research and experimentation, the behavior begins to fit within physical laws as we understand them. Then, we can extrapolate (predict) other behaviors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para\">For example, as we begin to understand quantum mechanics, we can design a computer, an encryption mechanism\u2014and eventually a teleportation system\u2014that exploits the physical properties and laws.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup> I do not appreciate the outreach of evangelism. In my opinion, religious discussion is best amongst a like-minded community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/does-mystery-of-quantum-physics-prove-god-exists\">Continue reading \u201cDoes Mystery of Quantum Physics Prove God Exists?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironically, my more popular posts are ones furthest from my passion and core interests. They are larks\u2014never intended to go viral. This is about one of them\u2026 Apart from family, I typically steer clear of religious topics. I identify with a mainstream religion, but it is completely beside the purpose of Lifeboat Foundation, and it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,945,48,225,1617,224],"tags":[3035,3036,3037,821,2591,402,1792,3038],"class_list":["post-78241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-general-relativity","category-particle-physics","category-philosophy","category-quantum-physics","category-science","tag-belief-in-god","tag-existance-of-god","tag-proof-of-god","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-quantum-physics","tag-religion","tag-schrodinger","tag-schrodingers-cat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78241"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100289,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78241\/revisions\/100289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}