Re: virus: Newsweek - Science finds God

Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:59:15 +0100


In message <35C37A44.C4F85359@qlink.queensu.ca>, Eric Boyd
<6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca> writes
>A longer quote from Einstein appears in Science, Philosophy, and
>Religion, A Symposium, published by the Conference on Science,
>Philosophy, and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of
>Life, Inc., New York, 1941. In it he says:
>The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the
>firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side
>of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature.

But Einstein didn't like quantum physics, which is where
the ordered regularity disappears. It just occurred to me,
surely someone somewhere has argued that the intrinsic
randomness of quantum events allows God to interact with
His creation? Anyone come across this suggestion before?

(Of course, if such events were guided by God, they wouldn't
really be random -- but they'd appear so to us, to whom the
Mind of God is unfathomable!)

-- 
Robin