Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Freeman Dyson and the Mathematical Universe

I agree a lot with what Dyson stated about the relationship between science and religion. He does not believe that the two of them have any real relationship to each other. Science has to do with the physical world and religion has more to do with the social world. He leaves the possibility of a designer of the universe based on the sophistication and ingenious design of life and physics and the way that some atoms act and seem to have a mind.

Dyson made some interesting statements about what God could be. He stated that “God is a mind on a scale beyond our comprehension.” That God is something that we will never understand and we should accept that and be okay with it; that there is more than meets the eye. He compared science and religion to two different windows looking out over the universe. You cannot look out of both at the same time be they both look at the same thing and they both coexist.

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