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A logical and consistent philosophic concept of the universe cannot be built up on the postulations of either materialism or spiritism, for both of these systems of thinking, when universally applied, are compelled to view the cosmos in distortion, the former contacting with a universe turned inside out, the latter realizing the nature of a universe turned outside in. Never, then, can either science or religion, in and of themselves, standing alone, hope to gain an adequate understanding of universal truths and relationships without the guidance of human philosophy and the illumination of divine revelation. (1135)
Unaided, faith and reason cannot conceive nor construct a logical universe. And without insight into the spiritual domain, mortal man cannot discern love, truth, beauty, and goodness in the phenomena of the material world. Revelation is evolutionary man's only realistic hope of bridging the gulf between the material and spiritual domain. But revelation is always personal. Therefore must man live, by faith, midst uncertainty. And this truth is the inevitable accompaniment of God's most precious gift of free will to all mankind. (from 1137)
Is there another way to explain quantum weirdness such as the existence of a spatial dimension outside of our own space-time in which messages are transferred instantaneously, in which complex decisions appear to be made, and which must hold absolutely enormous memory banks plus a way to relate their contents correctly to occurrences within our space-time?
Is it necessary that all this and much more should be attributed to an unknown and unknowable God?
We human earthlings have a long history of attributing to God all those phenomena that we don't understand, plus a good many more besides. And mostly we have been totally wrong. This time we look to be the winner. However the likelihood is that we will never know for certain. And that appears to be how things were intended to be. How else could we have true free will?
1.Beckenstein, J. Information in the Holographic Universe Scientific American, September, 2003
2. Zeilinger et al, in New Scientist, Worlds Apart, May 15, 2004
3. Innerface, Vol. 11, No. 5, Sept/Oct. 2004.
4. Pritchard et al. see Worlds Apart article, New Scientist, May 15, 2004
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