Stephen E. Jones

Creation/Evolution Quotes: Creation #2: Creator

[Quotes][Creation, #1, #2, #3]

Creation #2: Creator

1. Existence intuitively known
• "It is hard to resist the impression of something ... possessing an overview of the entire cosmos"
2. Ultimate explanation
• "... an extraordinarily deep principle of quantum mechanics ... handed down on stone tablets as an axiom, from whatever hand carves axioms"

Creation 2: Creator

1. Existence intuitively known
• "It is hard to resist the impression of something ... possessing an overview of the entire cosmos"

"It is hard to resist the impression of something - some influence capable of transcending spacetime and the confinements of relativistic causality - possessing an overview of the entire cosmos at the instant of its creation, and manipulating all the causally disconnected parts to go bang with almost exactly the same vigour at the same time, and yet not so exactly coordinated as to preclude the small scale, slight irregularities that eventually formed the galaxies, and us." (Davies, Paul C.W. [Physicist and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Adelaide, South Australia], "The Accidental Universe," [1982], Cambridge University Press: Cambridge UK, 1983, reprint, p.95). [top]

2. Ultimate explanation
• "... an extraordinarily deep principle of quantum mechanics ... handed down on stone tablets as an axiom, from whatever hand carves axioms"

"There is a fundamental law of the kingdom that, in an echo of Noah, requires electrons to enter orbitals two by two and no more than two by two. That is, according to the exclusion principle enunciated by the Austrian-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1924, no more than two electrons can occupy any one orbital. This is an extraordinarily deep principle of quantum mechanics: it can be traced to foundations embedded in the structure of spacetime, and is perhaps the deepest of all principles governing the imaginary kingdom, and hence-because the kingdom is not really all that imaginary-the actual kingdom, too. There is no picture to elucidate the principle: it is handed down on stone tablets as an axiom, from whatever hand carves axioms." (Atkins, Peter W. [leading atheist and Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Oxford University], "The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements," Basic Books: New York NY, 1995, pp.116-117. Emphasis in original) [top]

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