Why haven't creationists turned their dishonest agenda and fear-based wackyness on Quantum Physics?

Question

If they understood one percent of that 'theory', they'd be sh_tting in their pants with respect to its implications. Einstein was so troubled by its indeterminacy and non-local connections that he spent the remaining years trying to disprove it (he had an ego, too ;) ).

Answer 1

If they can't understand what a fossil is, they can't understand much.

Answer 2

Because evolution is easy. It's a simple idea to understand, and requires little to no math. Even if they don't actually understand it, they think they do. It's too accessible. However, quantum theory is math. Hard math. They know they don't know anything about it. They can't argue against it if they don't even know the basics. You don't learn about it in high school - no one takes a class in it until they're two or three or four years into a 4-year degree in physics.

Answer 3

I've wondered that too. M Theory, String Theory and some of the newer things that are coming out are much more damaging to the general idea of a god than evolution. I assume that it is because most of the public has no idea what Physics is really working on.

Answer 4

Quantum mechanics can be used to show how something can have to states at the same time, and how something can act on another at a "spooky" distance. Sounds to me like it could be useful in solving theological conundrums, like the trinity, for example.

Also, if you understand the recent "quantum eraser" experiment, you are in a better position to show how the blood of Christ could take care of sins that had not yet been committed. I don't know much about quantum mechanics, but what little I have seen seems useful to me in understanding God.

Answer 5

How do you know they haven't?

Dishonest??? oh come now. Shall we peek into the fraud and fakery behind evolution? How many missing links were outright fakes? Where did the museum exhibitions of Lucy get their hands and feet, and why? What do you know about Ernst Hankels embryos? Who said that all humans came from one fully developed human female, who now, and when,and what was the evolutionary theory at that time????
Creation has not changed from day one. Evolution is changing as we speak.

Answer 6

Actually, I think religionists of all stripes actually love the quantum theory. The indeterminancy inherent in it is the final refuge of the "God of the cracks" religionists who insist on the presence of God at whatever point absolute proof of something is not immediately available. With QT's inherent indeterminancy, there is always a place for them to point and say "you can't know everything, and that thing you can't know is what we can call God"

Answer 7

Ah but don't you know Quantum Theory is "just a theory", hence some of the more extremist Christians dismiss it with the same venom as they do evolution.

Answer 8

The Bible deals with Quantum mechanics,Speaking of Christ,It says,by him and of him do all things consist, and without him was not anything made that was made.

Answer 9

lol.... have you ever tried giving even one explanation to them about quantum physics?
Try saying something like, "We can be in up to 30,000 places at one time" or "at the quantum level, there is no space in between objects"..
I do understand what you're saying, but trying to get them to even look at it is near impossible.

Answer 10

I'm not convinced that quantum mechanics has anything to say about religion. And believe me, I've given it a lot of thought, and taken a year of upper div quantum mechanics.

Answer 11

Insulting creationsists results only in them believing you are wrong like the rest. Try being civil and maybe somebody might consider that you have something worth listening to.