Posted to: Physics Blogging
Bryan Dahmes is rambling about physics and faith. Can religion and science mix? He seems to think so and has some interesting points. Read the full post as there is some interesting conversation in the comments section...
"I really don't think that the Bible says anything about Quantum Mechanics. All we have is that God said "Let there be light". Does it matter that we now call the light "photons"? There's a t-shirt that I really like, where on the front God "speaks" Maxwell's equations, and on the back it says "and there was light".
When I was in college, a good friend of mine said he got into physics because he wanted to understand the mechanism of God's creation. I think this is a noble goal. Granted, by it's very definition, science refuses to deal with God. Science is a search for "natural laws". This means that the universe operates without the need for a chariot to carry the sun across the heavens, etc.
God, being supernatural, can't really be defined by science. From this, people make the jump and say there is no God. But I don't think that science, in its purest form, excludes God. I think that it's very easy for science to become a sort of religion itself, where people take what has been said about our universe, and then conclude that science has defeated, or killed, God. Only fools still believe. I don't see the leap."
