Has Science Proven God?

Question

Given the discoveries of quantum mechanics, that reality a wave of probability that collapses when observed and that the observed reality a creation of the observer, can we safely say that reality and the observer are one and the same? Does this not parallel every wisdom tradition in recorded history?

Answer 1

If you are claiming that God is this observer, the only thing this can prove to me is that I am God.

a) reality is caused and destroyed through observation of it
b) The only thing I can know with absolute certaintity is that I am aware. I don't know with absolute certainity than anyone else actually experiences, only that they seem to.
c) Therefore, I am potentially the only observer and therefore potentialy God.

Answer 2

It isn't so much observation by humans, but general interaction with decohered particles (the macroscopic environment) that, in effect, collapses a wave function.

The act of observation requires some kind of interaction with an environment of particles (e.g., photons strike an object and bounce back to our eyes, a detector, or what have you). If the interacting particle is decoherent (i.e., we know something about its position and velocity) enough that we (in a macroscopic sense) can use it to measure a particle in question, it must necessarily transfer its decoherence to the subject in order to comply with the Uncertainty Principle.

P.S.,
Please don't confuse Stephen Hawking's references to god with any display of faith. Stephen Hawking is, on record, an Atheist. His references to god are usually in a poetic, and usually ironic, sense.

Answer 3

Here is another theory to consider. Science has recently made a stride towards proving creationism? Quantum physics has come up with the "String Theory". It postulates that all matter, everything that exists, consists of "strings" of vibrating energy. That the arrangement of these strings produces the various forms and types of all matter. The creation account describes God as "speaking" everything into existence. Sound being a vibrating energy... what conclusion would you derive?

Science has always been man's attempts to explain and understand the things of God.

Answer 4

No, science has demonstrated a lack of any outside creative force, intelligent design, or spiritual dimension. The randomness of quantum level physics shows that reality is far more chaotic than a "made and designed" reality.

Answer 5

Science hasn't proven God and nor does it need to. It's job is solely to reveal the natural mechanisms at work in the universe based on the available evidence-what implications theologians or philosophers draw from those facts is an issue for them not scientists. God is supernatural and by definition therefore outwith the boundaries of natural science.

Answer 6

Even Stephen Hawking once said that there must be a giant observer outside the Universe in order to make particles appear the way they do. But then again, we don't know everything about quantum mechanics. In fact, you can say we are still in our infancy with that one. I happen to believe the force of "god" is in QM, but that there is no Creator.

Answer 7

Whats a wisdom tradition?

No, you've misunderstood the uncertainty principle - if anything it proves god does not exist, or at least that he knows next to nothing.

After all, its impossible to know the velocity and position of a single subatomic particle, let alone every single one in the whole universe.

Answer 8

Creation proves God. Science disproves the fact that energy created this intricately created world and all of its inhabitants.

Answer 9

so far nothing has proven the existence of God.
Science only proves some of the "opinions" made about God to be wrong.

Answer 10

Has science disproved God?