S8. More Matters Than Just Matter and Materialism

Scientists measure what they see and they look for natural explanations for the world that we live in. However, it seems that this is not always possible.

When it comes to quantum physics, science can’t explain why at the basic level, the act of observation literally changes the behaviour of particles. In other words, the particles seem to know that they are being watched and this changes their behaviour. (Check out Young’s famous two slit experiment https://youtu.be/A9tKncAdlHQ).

Physicist Freeman Dyson is quoted as saying “It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom.” This is not to say that tiny particles are conscious themselves, but that quantum particles interact with their environment in a knowing way, in a very real sense. Something that scientist Roger Penrose calls ‘protmentality’. P132 Finding God in Science. “Perhaps those Bible verses about rocks crying out if God is not worshipped and all of creation groans waiting for the son of man is not just poetic after all”.

Science doesn’t have all the answers, in fact it is raising mysteries that it didn’t even know existed before. Aetheists may believe that everything occurred and occurs by random chance (except human and animal thinking, meaning that now humans and animals can exercise choice that is not random) ... and that a personal God is a figment of that human imagination, but these new discoveries and the new mysteries that come with them are leaning more towards choice in response to consciousness having a role to play in everything at the most fundamental level.

ARE YOU SURE ... that matter and energy is all that there is?