By Taylor Moffitt of Halydean
Some quantum physicists like to offer comments about who or what did or did not create the universe. In some books about quantum physics, which are intended for the general public, this is all presented as if it were scientific. That can be misleading. Here are some specifics on how to differentiate between the physics, the philosophy, and the religion of quantum mechanics.
The physics of quantum mechanics is pure science, and it is good. Its concepts are testable in repeatable experiments. It shows up inviolable principles that govern the sub-atomic world of the quantum. A great example of this is how an electron can move from one energy level of an atom to another.
The philosophy of quantum mechanics is a logical effort to describe the cause and effect relationships in the world of the quantum. This philosophy especially tries to describe the role of human observers in these interactions.
Quantum physics becomes religion when academics stray from the repeatably testable and attempt to guess who or what is or is not behind cause and effect in quantum events. Such conjectures are religious. Unbiased researchers should call a spade a spade. When astrophysicists and quantum physicists venture into religion it should be acknowledged as such.
Anti-theistic bias was responsible for the dogmatic adherence to silly and absurd theories of academic gymnastics, where academics clung to anti-creation theories and went out on limbs, fighting to the academic death to defend absurdities such as the static universe theory, the infinitely oscillating universe model, the plasma model, attacks against Einstein’s theory of relativity, and other embarrassments to good science and academics. Today, the general consensus of the scientific community has come to terms that these anti-creation theories were silly. Modern efforts to remove God from the moment of creation will someday look just as absurd.
Einstein was invited to look through Hubble’s telescope to see for himself the expansion of the universe. If the universe is expanding, it couldn’t be eternal. That means it had a beginning, and a moment of creation, just like the Bible says. Einstein honestly concluded that there must be an intelligent creator. This is a religious conclusion, and a very logical one, for we will never be able to apply the principles of science to the moments before time and space existed without venturing in to religion.
Figure 1. Einstein and Hubble
Taylor Moffitt of Halydean 