Does Quantum Theory prove or disprove the existence of God?
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Science is a useless substitute for religion.\nReligion is a useless substitute for science.\n\nScience requires the tools of science. Religion requires the tools of religion. \n\nYou do not use a ruler to find the temperature or a screwdriver to measure air pressure. Both the ruler and the screwdriver are good tools, but each useless when used inappropriately for a task they\nwere never designed to accomplish.\n\nIn their purest forms science cannot prove or disprove religion and religion cannot prove or disprove science. They are two vastly different tools.
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Whether God exists is not the question. If you look you can see God's hand in life all around you. The question is more of what is God?  Through logical discourse, testimony of other people and other such evidence you can start to decide whether any religion has a clue, whether God is a factor of the human collective or spirits or whatever conclusion you can deduce from the evidence. \n\nThe first step is to look for inconsistancies in magnitude or frequency which imply intelligence over the normal chaos of randomness. If there is no God then the chaos factor will rule. There will be occasional accidents which can seem as if there was intelligent action behind them. By nature these must be rare as the result must be random if there is no God. I am talking about matters beyond normal human control that is. Also about understood factors. Cancer going into sudden remission is beyond our ability to understand right now. It cannot be claimed or refuted as a mircle because we just don't know enough to say. \n\nInstead look to things we do understand the mechanics of. Then look for the unexplained. A %100 fatal disease suddenly being cured is an example. Of course the diagnosis has to be accurate and the remission total. Changes in peoples lives from external sources. The mechanics of social interaction are well understood. The flight of a butterfly perhaps holds a clue if you study it with an open mind. To see God's hand you have to look for it. It won't often slap you accross the face and you can deny it's existance despite postive proof just as easily as you can find proof in randomness if you have decided before opening your eyes what you intend to see and work at seeing just that. To prove of disprove you have to look as objecctively as you can. Drop as many predisposiions as you can and just look for a while. After you look follow up possible leads and objectively say this might be or this can be explained by such and such and assign a probability of that being a reasonable explanation. Many "acts of God" are pure randomness. There comes a point where random is too random though in my opinion. Where mathimatical odds of coincidence become too high to be remotely acceptable. \n\nI believe there is God. The nature of God is something I am trying to learn right now. I reject all theology at this time as it is subjective and the nature of God to me is too important an aspect to just accept somebody else's opinion. I want to know for myself what it is. So I examine all the possibilities and discard those that discredit themselves. In general the preponents of a description of God to me are irrelivent. Bad people taint good ideas all the time. Still if a theology is by nature corrupt it will produce %100 corruption in it's proponents. If I meet a large enough sampling and see a commmon trait prescribed by that theology I'll reject that theologie's dogma as harmfull. That does not make the base theology wrong, just the surrounding dogma and celibration of it harmfull. Too many people reject God as non-existant based on very subjective criteria. Bad experiences with the application of dogma for example. Bad experiences with theology is another. They forget Theology is a man made thing. People do what they will with information, information being just another tool in man's hand. It can be used for good or bad. The source of the theology is distinct and different. To blame God for the actions of a clergy group is like blaming iron for being made into a sword. Iron is an ore that minds it's own business in the ground. Men discover it and make what suits them from it. This is free will in action. It is free will though that makes me believe in God the most. Nature abhor's a vacume and free will is a vacume of power. It is an unatural state. It's existance a rebuke to randomness and nature. All other elements follow closely very prescribed rules. Life does what it pleases when it
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There can never be proof of a spiritual reality in a physical world.\n\nOnly idiots will quote the Bible or Quran as proof ... because there is no proof that they are really from a supreme being.  Proof can only come from an established truth. No scripture of any religion can be proof.\n\nSome foolish people claim that all you need is faith. They overlook Jesus' most important teachings. He spoke of a foolish man building his house on sand (blind faith) and the wise building it upon a solid rock (factual information). He was showing that faith without a solid ground is just another name for stupidity.\n\nPersonally, I feel that in a great void prior to the world, there was a "Dynamic Energy" and through the big bang part of that energy was converted to mass (E=MC^2). This resulted in the many worlds and galaxies being formed. It is all very scientific.\n\nIt is important to realize that everything and everyone around us, including ourselves is part of that "Dynamic Energy"... not from it, but part of it.\n\nNow substitute the phrase "Supreme Being" for "Dynamic Energy" and you will realize that everything around us including our enemies is all part of GOD ... not from him, but PART OF HIM.\n\nThe world that we pollute is part of Him, our enemies we are shooting at is part of Him. The table and that chair we touch is part of Him.\n\nIf every one could believe this way, there would be no wars, no poor, no pollution because we would realize that we were doing it to God himself or herself.\n\nThat may be why many religions say we are all GODS or divine, part of God or in his image.  \n\nI think they are all very right on this aspect.
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Your reasoning does not necessarily follow. \n\nConsider one of the suppositions that some scientists have posited as a possible conclusion to the unknowable state of subatomic particles posited by Quantum theory: every choice may spin off a new universe. \n\nNow - mind you - I am not positing that this is what happens, but some serious people have proposed this - every choice you can make, some iteration of you does make, since thought itself is quite possibly quantum mechanical (it is passed via electrons, so the possibility cannot be precluded.) And each of these choices spins a new thread off the universe into a multiverse of possible outcomes. \n\nAs you can see, this is just one possible means by which you actually can have complete control of your destiny, and for God to still know the outcome. An infinite God would still be God of a multiverse of infinite possibility.\n\nYour choices are yours. You know you make them. You can feel yourself make them, as you make them - I don't need to prove this, anyone reading can intuit for themselves that I am telling a basic truth.\n\nThe fact that God does have some inkling of how all this will turn out does not represent any sort of interference with your free will. Nor is it a disproof of God. It is merely a reflection that an infinite wisdom can consider infinite possibilities, and find any of them to be quite unsurprising.\n\nSo no - while God is self-limiting in the sense that he does not appear to want to interfere in our doings (and the universe appears to have been explicitly designed to permit free will) - this is not an argument for God's powerlessness or non-existence. It is proof only that, if there is a God, infinite choices and possibilities are not out of reach of his infinite power.
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NO,\n\nThe burden of proof is on those who believe in "GOD".\n\nYou can't make up a person and say that if you can't disprove his existance then he must exist.
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The Aether does not exist.\n\nThe Quantum Aether Dynamics Institue exists only to con the gullible and stupid out of money.\n\nPut your credit cards away and learn some real physics.
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That I absolutely have to disagree with. There are many scientists, including particle physicists, who believe in God. The web site below has articles by a number of them.\n\nMany of them argue against the evangelical 6000-year-old earth proposition. They maintain that the Evangelicals are driving people away from Christianity by insisting that people ignore the evidence of their own eyes.
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Youre right, you cant prove it. But thats fine for most people, cause if you keep telling yourself thats something exist, its gonna exist. So you dont need a proof. If you keep telling yourself that theres God, God will exist. If you dont, then he wont. It simple. And about the Bible, I could write a book right now about a new God, bury it in the earth and then about 1000 years later someone's gonna find it, and there will be a new religion, and everybody will believe in my God. You know what im saying? So you cant prove anything, its just whether believe in it or not. If you do you'll see it.
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Stephen Hawking gives many theories abt the unverse in "a brief history of time". \n\nIf we accept the no boundaries preposition, ie the universe has no boundaries, neither in space nor in time, then there is no space for god anywhere.\n\nIf we accept the theory of multiple universes, ie there are a very large number of universes, and in each of them separate laws of physics apply, then God has gotta be out of the whole system, because how can he be in just one universe, and ignore the rest(unless each universe has its own god, but the how will they coordinate??)
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The idea of 'a god' cannot be disproved.  Because a god doesn't necessarily exist in a physical sense or impact on anything in a measurable way, there's no way it can be shown that one doesn't exist.\nThe Christian/Jewish/Islamic God as described in their holy books can be shown through evidence to not exist, as these religions are wrong about the creation of both the earth and life.  There is scientific evidence to support this, in the theory of evolution by natural selection, the Big Bang, abiogenesis and various other scientific theories which are inconsistent with those religions.
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look around you, can you testify the existance of GOD and the universe?
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God does exist.\nThere are many natural phenomenon which have not been yet discovered by man,nor doe we really know how those that exist come about.\nSome theories have been successfully proven, others , only time will tell.\nSome atheists claim that this universe is in existence from ever and it will last for ever. If this universe is in existence from ever, then it must have infinite source of power and energy, but we see that no material thing is infinite in this universe. The temperature of Sun is falling down, even the earth is cooling off. All the sources of energy in this universe are being consumed up and exhausting. So the world is approaching to its end as was prophesied by all the religions. It proves that the universe came into being a finite time ago and it also has a definite end. We know from our whole life's experience, that if we consider any process, there are only two possibilities, that a process is either started by some human beings, or it might be a result of some other process. If we move back in this tree of processes which are a result of some other process, ultimately we shall come across a process, which could not be attributed to any other process. At that place, we are left with no other argument, except to believe that it was started by some Super being. We refer to that super being as 'GOD', some atheists call this Super Being by the name of 'nature'. Actually just giving a different name to this Super Being really does not make much difference, they believe in GOD, and all they need is just a little fine tuning.
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On the contrary, my friend.\n\nThere is evidence for the existence of God.\n\nSee here for examples: http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm\n\nAnd there is evidence for the truth of Jesus Christ:\nhttp://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/jesus.htm\n\nWishing you Joy through Jesus Christ,\nJohn
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I can give some information, but only God can convince you.\nI know this is really long, and I apologize in advance, but to follow the chain of logical reasoning takes a lot of words.\n\nAbsolute Proof for the Existence of God:\nThere’s a lot of really great evidence that God does in fact exist:\n1. The existence of God explains the universal longing of the heart.\nBillions of people have believed in a god, people of differing cultures and times, differing places and customs. Mankind is irreversibly homo religiosis, a religious creature. Even philosophies that had no god eventually had to invent one—this was clearly the case within Buddhism. The Buddha did not teach the existence of a deity, but the Buddha’s followers over the centuries converted Gautama Buddha himself into a god, and he is still revered as such by millions of Buddhists today.\n\nAnd this shift is also a shift to a personal deity. An abstract “force” does not satisfy the needs of the human heart—we need to know that someone is out there, not just something. This same shift was evident within Hinduism. The monistic impulse of Upanishadic Hinduism, with its highly philosophical Brahman, an abstract higher power, was overshadowed over time by devotion to individual, personal gods. We humans arrive on this earth incomplete, sensing a deep need within our souls for the divine. This is the “God-shaped void” in each heart.\n\nAtheism—the denial of God’s existence—simply doesn’t satisfy the longings of the human heart. Man cannot live without God. When people are denied a god, they invent one to satisfy their hearts. \n\n2. Humanity needs an ultimate point of reference by which we can determine our own meaning.\nThis is a point the braver atheists like Sartre have conceded. Their suggestion, of course, is that humanity has no meaning, no purpose, no ultimate significance. We cannot find our significance in ourselves—we long to exist for something greater. As was discussed in the previous lecture, if there is no God who exists and has spoken, we are left absurd creatures whose every action is arbitrary. It should come as no surprise that the fervor of UFO people seems so very religious in its zeal! They want someone to be out there, so that we can have a point of reference from which to consider our own existence! Those searching for extraterrestrial life often argue that humanity’s reason for existence—its purpose and destiny—will only be discovered when we make “first contact” with another life form. I would suggest that that other life form is the One that created us, that made contact for our salvation 2,000 years ago. We find our destiny only in him, for whom and by whom we were created.\n\n3. The existence of God best explains humanity’s sense of right & wrong.\nEveryone has an idea of the perfect, a concept of the good, true and beautiful. This deep moral sense, what C.S. Lewis called the Tao or the Law of Common Decency, had to come from somewhere. Compare the great moral systems of the world through the ages. They are remarkably similar. Faithfulness in marriage, honesty in speech, goodwill toward other people, not shedding human blood, honoring one’s parents—all are moral principles found in every society. Confucius died long before Jesus, but summarized his Law of Reciprocity (shu) by stating, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”\n\nThis universal sense of right and wrong, what philosophers historically called natural law, cannot be explained very easily without appealing to humanity’s creation by a moral God. And these moral principles are not merely the products of human cultures. Were this so, we would see a lot more variation from one society to the next. But we find them, not only in every culture, but also ingrained in the human conscience. As Paul explained, God’s moral law is “written on their hearts” (Romans 2:15). This had to come from somewhere.\n\n4. The existence of G
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As you ask in the science category: No, not in the scientific world.\n\nThere is no scientific theory that needs a god to explain something, and no evidence for the existence of a god is found in any experiment.\n\nI know that there are religious scientists, but they differ between their religion and their work. Religion can't be a part of science, because we have strict rules about scientific work. Experiments must be reproducible and theories have to be falsifiable: Religion doesn't fit both criteria, that's the difference between \ndeductive logic and pure belief whithout asking.\n\nAlthough in America creationists currently have a come back in disguise as pseudo-scientific intelligent design, this is not a scientific theory and just an USA related problem with christian fundamentalism and the education system.
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The predictions of quantum mechanics are incredible, it is true. Especially in the more extreme reaches, like quantum electrodynamics, and quantum gravity, and quantum chromodynamics, and quantum teleportation, etc. Absolutely amazing. \n\nHowever, as much as these predictions do not agree with our intuition, they have been verified over and over and over for decades and decades. So although it seems like nonsense, it appears to explain what we observe, and to make predictions which we can verify. \n\nSo is it believable? I guess it depends on what you mean by believable. It certainly does not agree with our day to day experiences and intuition. Is it repeatable, and does it make predictions that we find useful? Yes.
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There IS no way to prove or disprove the existence of any deity, as is the same with anything supernatural. The supernatural is definitively NOT scientifically testable. You can give evidence one way or another, but it is debatable as to whether we will ever have the ability to prove or disprove the existence of anything supernatural - including deities.