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Analysis Of God Does Not Play Dice By John Polkinghorne

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“God does not play dice”. The author, Alastair Rae, cleverly started off the book with the famous statement by Albert Einstein. Right from the first sentence, he grabs the reader's’ attention and interest into the discussion of fundamentals and conceptual problems in the field of quantum theory.

Firstly, this statement implies that Einstein disagreed with the uncertainty of the theory of quantum mechanics where at the atomic level, nature and the universe occurs randomly. Though most people would prefer to have a definite answer like Einstein, but quantum physics does not allow us to predict an event precisely. We would never know precisely how a system of particles would behave but with quantum physics, we would at least know how probable the system would behave in a certain way. So we would rather use quantum physics to help us understand what happened in the universe, rather than to not know anything about it. Secondly, as “god” is mentioned, people would expect a correlation between science and religion. However, the ‘god’ that Einstein believed in …show more content…

This is due to the fact that they are both concerned with the search of truth. Polkinghorne and Einstein had opposing views and the question would be who is right? We do not really know but we might be more inclined to believing that there is indeed a correlation between science and religion. This is because science can falsify and verify religious claims. Also, religion provide the conceptual foundation in which science can flourish. One example would be people believed that God created life but we do not know for sure whether it is the truth or not. However, scientific studies have shown that life cannot evolve without a creator. This was built upon the religious claim, which further verify the

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