Hey Fundies! Do you believe in Quantum Mechanics?

Question

Come on, it's just a "theory" right?
So do you believe in quantum mechanics?
Did you know that unlike evolution, quatum mechanics are very applicable and are used in television, computers, microwaves, CD's and DVD's?

Deadzone-I am well aware of that. But people have certain preconceived notions about evolution and medicine that quantum mechanics is free of.

Sockblade-yes I do "believe" in quantum mechanics. I understand it's basics as well, although I don't yet understand the whole field. As it is still being discovered.

Your turn.

Maybe- you want to answer the question?

Answer 1

*crickets*

Answer 2

So, what is the point of your observation, exactly? That people who believe differently than you must be stupid, or something like that? Everyone "believes" in Quantum Mechanics, as far as I know. I didn't think that this was a religious question.

I find it interesting that many atheists have no problem with accepting without question apparent paradoxes in physics, like the dual particle/wave nature of light, for example, but turn around and argue that difficult to understand religious concepts like the "trinity" proves that God does not exist.

No one ever says that Schrödinger's cat proves that Albert Einstein did not exist, or that Zeno's paradoxes shows that classical mechanics is wrong or that Isaac Newton was a fraud, but then these same people find some minor difficulty in the Bible and toss up their hands and claim that God must be imaginary, because religion is slightly confusing. A double standard, perhaps?

I know that I didn't really answer your question, but it is not clear what you point is, so I just thought that I would ramble on for a while (since you complained that you weren't getting enough answers).

Now, at least, you got one more.

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If you are trying to draw an analogy between Quantum Mechanics and Evolution, I’m not sure that the analogy is a good one, since no one has seen a television set evolve on its own from a box of random electronic parts without the intervention of an intelligent human designer. You could be shooting yourself in the foot with this argument.

Answer 3

In terms of its ability to correctly predict the outcome of an experiment (a theory that cannot correctly predict the outcome of an experiment is worthless as a theory) the quantum theory is the most successful physical theory ever devised.
Only once did an experiment 'disagree' with the quantum theory - but it was sloppily done and had to be done over - then it did agree with the theory.
Relativity comes in at #2.
But I also believe that there is no 'mechanism' that makes protons neutrons and such work the way they do.
I believe that God "sustains all things by the word of his power".

Answer 4

Yay we get to play the circular logic game!

Hey Atheists! Do you believe in Quantum Mechanics?
Come on, it's just a "theory" right?
So do you believe in quantum mechanics?
Did you know that unlike Intelligent Design, quatum mechanics are very applicable and are used in television, computers, microwaves, CD's and DVD's?

Answer 5

I would like to challenge you to drop your stereotypes which really don't help any solve anything. For your information there are plenty of Intelligent design scientists who hold impressive positions such as Dr. Fritz Schaeffer, the pioneering founder of an entire field of chemistry, quantum computational chemistry(formerly at UC Berkeley, now at the Univercity of Georgia) then there is Cees Dekkar of the Univercity of Delft, a pioneer in biological nanotechnology; Dr. Fred Sigworth, an international known expert on physiology, teaching at Yale; Dr. Andrew Bocarsly, a leading chemical researcher at Princeton known for his work on inorganic material that can be used in the conversion of sunlight to electrical current. This list could be greatly expanded. Point being people of faith can and do have valid points of view. To bad som many have shut the door of their minds.

Answer 6

I do not have enough information nor enough physics or scientific background to discuss this with any validity. The limit of my knowlege is that quantum mechanics is necessary to describe behavior of particles at the subatomic level as they do not seem to obey Newtonian physics, and that one of the current great pushes is to unite the theory of special relativity with the theory of quantum mechanics to produce a "theory of everything."

Where do you suppose to be going with this? By your own admission, the theory of evolution is useless:
"Did you know that unlike evolution, quatum mechanics are very applicable..."

Further, even a novice such as myself can punch holes in evolutionary theory, and it's not even hard to do so.

Tom

Answer 7

I don't believe in Quantum Mechanics or Evolution, I do agree with them though.

Btw, a lot of the medicine that we use to treat sick people is the result of using... Evolution.. ((GHASP!!!))

Answer 8

so now science is a 'belief?' tell us, do you have 'services?' what kinds of 'hymns' do you sing?
yes, i am aware of quantum physics, and, no, i'm not all that well-educated in the subject...so sue me, i was a poli sci/journalism major! are you satisfied? by the same token, if 'believe' is the term you choose, i also 'believe' in chemistry, thermodynamics (my dad taught it at naval ocs), mathematics (my wife teaches that), biology, history, art, music, wood shop, creative writing, psychology....but would i categorize any of these as 'beliefs?' hardly...

Answer 9

Could I get a quantum mechanic to fix my car?

It's fundamentally flawed. I don't think you understand the gravity of my situation!!

Answer 10

Its a trick from the devil (;-)) haha
I beleive in life, the feeling of the moment which is reality....I'm also called an atheist.

Answer 11

Not familiar with it. But its like gravity - I don't have to believe in something for it to work and be true............................ I do believe in gravity by the way.