Will String Theory validate or invalidate the concept of God? Why?

Answer 1

What Grey Bear has said strikes a chord but is a little "incomplete". God is a concept, but to believer's He crosses over into reality.
If String Theory is supposed to be part of the explanation for EVERYTHING then it should be able to explain the existence of the "concept of God". Correct?

Answer 2

No, it won't invalidate God, because why are the strings there and why do they behave the way they do? But it doesn't validate God either, because it may be equally possible, objectively speaking, that the strings existed infinitely and that God existed infinitely. However, what it does tend to do is to push Creation back, and to remove God from the homocentric creation we've always thought of. After all, why create all of the universe just for one measely planet, when He theoretically could have made the laws anything He liked, and could have made it such that the Earth was at the center and was flat and the stars were simply points of light in an empty dome outside of which was heaven?

Answer 3

String Theory can not validate or invalidate the concept of god.

Though it would be nice if it could. String Theory is not interested in the concept of God.

But it could open the door of revealing a more direct experience of God in our every day understanding of how the kosmos arrives into being.

I believe the study of string theory can produce a mystic intensity in those who practice and study the theory.

hmmm.. I guess in the way of contemplation it very well can touch on the concept of God. But will it prove god as Einstein wished to prove God with physics.. will it be the theory of everything..

From I observations and studies I find that the best way to merge science with theology is to recognize theology as a science and take up a spiritual practice.. because in truth they enhance each other but the two can not be equated to each other..

one is empirical and speaks with observational language

the other is personal internal and speaks with metaphor and symbolic language

you can not reduce one to the other

likewise you have a difficult time explaining a new taste to someone who has yet to taste it.

even if string theory did influence the concept of god the only people who would know would be the involved practitioners of string theory because the concept of god and the existence of god is an inner realization just as the comprehensive understanding of string theory requires a requsite degree of mathmatical ability and those who could not aquire that ability and inner realization together.. would be left to trust or doubt those who did aquire the knowledge, hence we would be in the same situation.

ext. ext. ext.

Answer 4

It is possible that the theory will invalidate God. The principle reason why we cannot disprove God is because in all our cosmological theories there is space where we can place a 'creator' simply because we cannot explain why things started out a particular way (such as the 'constants' of nature, the absence of more than 3 spacial dimensions etc.). The theory of everything (string theory, maybe) might hold self-consitancy, kind of like circular logic, where there is no room for initial conditions that are unexplainable or coincidental. Often, this is refered to as 'elegance.'

Answer 5

String theory is just that, a theory. Not fact.

Also per a favorite singer "it's harder to belive than not to". In otherwords, you have to chose to belive in God over all the naysayers and their attempts to disprove. One more theory or "fact" which will probably be disproven 6 months or a year later won't change the beliefs of those who have chosen to belive reguardless of the "evidence" to the contrary.

Answer 6

Picture a bottle that fills with whatever contents are in it. put into it sand, marbles and water, it is now full of sand, marbles and water. Now remove the water. It is now full of sand and marbles, remove the marbles it is now full of sand. Remove the sand it is now full of air. Remove the air it is now full of empty space, did you feel the stretch? Now remove the empty space... The bottle is now full of something that is beyond your comprehension. Remove it, etc.

God is as far beyond our comprehension as string theory is beyond the comprehension of a chipmunk. No real scientist would ever deny the existence of God, a good scientist would simply say that such things will always be beyond our understanding.

Contemplating what is beyond our comprehension is spirituality.
Religion is spirituality in a box.

Answer 7

The concept of God is independent of empirical evidence.

Facts, evidence, reality, none of these impact upon unfounded belief.

Science and Religion speak two different languages. It is best for all when they ignore each other. When reason is applied to religion it is wasted; when faith intrudes upon science it gets in the way.