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The Science Delusion | Rupert Sheldrake | Review by The Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The compelling evidence for the creation of the universe ab initio at the moment of the Big Bang required there to be suddenly a lot more of both — as that speck of matter increased in size a million million million fold and within a million millionth of a second. So how did that come about, one might reasonably wonder, when, within the prevailing scientific paradigm, as Sheldrake points out, it is tantamount to ‘Give us a free miracle and we will explain the rest’.
I could get into how theoretical physics has found several ways to describe the "miracle" of the big bang, and cosmology in general, that make logical sense, and aren't some form of magical thinking. But then, there are lots of natural and physical scientists who think all aspects of theoretical physics are inherently magical thinking. So it would fall on deaf ears.
ReplyDeleteThe root problem is, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any form of technology or scientific theory so sophisticated as to be incomprehensible to you, personally, as an observer, is indistinguishable from magic.