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Post by half_pintDoes the Heisenberg uncertainty principle leave room for devine
intervention and free will?
Einstein say "God does not play dice".
However if we allow for "free will" and "devine intervention" would
not a "certain amount of uncertainty" be appropiate?
If modern physics is correct, God is quite a gambler and plays dice
rather a lot, I have no doubt he likes a gamble on the horses too,
I suspect he has better luck than me :O)
regards half_pint
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious
convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied
this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me
which can be called religious then it is the unbounded
admiration for the structure of the world so far as our
science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects
of his creation,whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a
God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death
of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts
through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
-- Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955
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"If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good
things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people
to do evil things, that takes religion.
--ďż˝ Steven Weinberg, The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to
explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you
finally discover how something works, you get some laws which
you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But
you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave
him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out
yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't
believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why
you only live to a certain length of time, life and death, stuff
like that. God is always associated with those things that you
do not understand. Richard Feynman.
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We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which
constitutes "the world" is something like a great chess game being
played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not
know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is
to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may
eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game
are what we mean by fundamental physics... Richard Feynman
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