Hi Risky:
> PLATT (previously):
> Says Guth, "It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can
> describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of
> nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could organize
> in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing
> things intentionally."
>
> "Fantastic" hardly captures the implausibility of the physicist's
> explanation. From nothing--zero, zip, nada--magically appears the
> universe. By comparison, resurrection from the dead appears infinitely
> reasonable, and the MOQ positively explodes with explanatory power.
>
> RISKY:
> What part of the MOQ do you see as contradicting science's current best
> theory? Or do you see the MOQ as supplementing the theory? If this is the
> case, how so?
>
> Curious,
> Risky
>
> PS -- I realize Mr Guth's quote offered no explanation for the organization
> of complexity, so I am assuming your comments are focused on his theory for
> the origin of the universe. Please correct me if I am wrong though.
Yes, the focus is on the origin of the universe. Science's current best
theory says the universe originated from nothing. The MOQ says the
universe originated from Quality or dharma, the principle of rightness.
This not only directly contradicts science's "oops" theory of the origin of
universe, but its explanations of subsequent developments as well. To
attribute many fundamental changes to chance, as science does to
avoid any hint of the supernatural, is not so much an experimental
conclusion as an admission of ignorance.
I don't see the MOQ as contradicting science so much as
supplementing it with a deeper explanation of why things happen as
they do. The reason I brought up the "something from nothing" theory
was simply to show that neither Christianity nor the MOQ have a
monopoly on the "fantastic."
Platt
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