Quantum Mechanics: A Magical Wand to Explain a Universe from Nothing, Freewill and Providence?

Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran 41:53) He is the Mighty, the Forgiving; Who created the seven heavens, one above the other. You will not see any flaw in what the…

August 9, 2024

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Epigraph:

We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran 41:53)

He is the Mighty, the Forgiving; Who created the seven heavens, one above the other. You will not see any flaw in what the Lord of Mercy creates. Look again! Can you see any flaw? Look again! And again! Your sight will turn back to you, weak and defeated. (Al Quran 67:2-4)

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD

A large majority of today top scientists, mathematicians and philosophers are atheists. This creates a strange quandary. When they are in a good mood, they allow the magical powers of Quantum mechanics, like quantum tunneling and quantum entanglement and more and we can have a universe from nothing and it can be biophilic with amazingly large number of coincidences to make our universe habitable.

When in a good mood they allow not one universe but infinite number of universes or multiverse from nothing, ten raised to the power of 500 to be precise.

When not in so good a mood, they tell us that Quantum mechanics cannot provide for such commonly observed phenomena as our consciousness and freewill. For freewill they obfuscate by saying that even though Quantum physics is indeterminate but it is random so it cannot provide or justify freewill. As they deny our daily manifestation of freewill they stress that no physics can provide for providence of God, His influence in evolution and definitely He cannot grant prayers without violating the laws of nature.

What a paradox par excellence.

Rest of the articles below and videos are my attempt to substantiate and demonstrate the above claims. First a friendly Quantum physicist Henry Stapp with theistic bias before everything else:

Before we proceed a few words about our scholar here. Henry Pierce Stapp (born March 23, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio)^[1] is an American mathematical physicist, known for his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the development of axiomatic S-matrix theory, the proofs of strong nonlocality properties, and the place of free will in the “orthodox” quantum mechanics of John von Neumann.^[2]

Stapp received his PhD in particle physics at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Nobel Laureates Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain.

In 1958, Stapp was invited by Wolfgang Pauli to ETH Zurich to work with him personally on basic problems in quantum mechanics. When Pauli died in December 1958, Stapp studied von Neumann’s book, and on the basis of that work composed an article entitled “Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics”, which was not submitted for publication; but the title became the title of his 1993 book.

In 1969 Stapp was invited by Werner Heisenberg to work with him at the Max Planck Institute in Munich.

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So, Quantum mechanics provides for our universe or multiverse according to Alexander Vilenkin and Lawrence Krauss in the above videos and I do not deny them. I am confident and comfortable in my belief in theism, because I know that Quantum physics by itself cannot create anything as mathematical formulae on a piece of paper or blackboard have no creative power. This was highlighted by Henry Stapp in his videos above and is also tackled in the articles linked below.

Now, hear Daniel Dennett as he obfuscates the issues of human consciousness and freewill. He has been named as one of the four horsemen of neoatheism: