Tipler would seem to be wrong about Updike and computer technology. Roger Angell says that "Updike was probably the very first New Yorker writer to shift over to a computer, back in the early eighties."
For reference, here is Bryan's review of Tipler's The Physics of Christianity. And this seems relevant as well: The Anglican Curmudgeon on Tipler’s The Physics of Christianity.
I'm in between on all this. I don't think the existence of God can "proved." But then I don't think my existence can be, either. I don't think dialectical proof is the sole or even principal criterion for truth. On the other hand, I don't think that science and religion are entirely non-overlapping magisteria, nor do I think they are fundamentally at odds with each other. But then, I don't think reason is the sole or even principal faculty for arriving at the truth. I think that truth can be arrived at only by bringing to bear upon experience all of our faculties - reason, will, emotion, and most of all imagination.
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