Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe a spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must feel humble. Albert Einstein When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics. Frank J. Tipler, The Physics Of Immortality (New York, Doubleday, 1994), Preface. A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. Guirdjieff Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. The visible world is the invisible organization of energy. Physicist Heinz Pagels There is no reality in the absence of observation. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics We have actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie Ultimate Realities, subtle, far- reaching, wonderful. Sir William Crookes, 1879 We have too many men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ... Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. General Omar N. Bradley Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, “Technology and the Future” If you would learn the secrets of nature, you must practice more humanity than others. Henry David Thoreau The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. Albert Einstein The person who can split an atom but has no love in his heart is a monster. J Krishnamurti * Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. Albert Einstein Our bodies exist, of course, in the physical world, which provides an environment for our activity and growth on Earth and offers us nourishment, stimulation and joy. Likewise, there is a spiritual dimension of the universe the invisible spirit world- which serves as the environment for our spirits. Our spirit is the internal counterpart to our physical body, and the spirit world is the invisible counterpart to the physical world. This world is located not up in heaven, but in a different dimension, inter-penetrating the physical world and the universe. While on Earth we exist in both worlds at once, in effect connecting the two. For this reason, people on occasion can have visions and communicate with the dead. Nora Spurgin Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions. Edward Witten According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. Roy H Williams Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well. Roy H Williams Those who have stunted their spiritual growth through an undeveloped or misdirected lifestyle, have led a purely self- centered life or have hurt other people, their spiritual environment will reflect something of these realities. A self-centered life on Earth places one in an area of the spirit world with like-minded people who have yet to learn the value of unselfishness for the advancement of the soul. Nora Spurgin Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views. Physicist John Polkinghorne, "Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity" * All of the various heavenly realms of consciousness have different frequencies of vibration. Matter on Earth is composed of atoms and these atoms are composed of energy which vibrates. Earth matter is denser than the matter of the higher realms. We can see Earth matter because of light waves which vibrate at a visual observing rate. But the same reason that we cannot see radio or television waves, which vibrate at too fast a rate to be seen, is the same reason we cannot see the matter of higher realms, unless you happen to be clairvoyant. Margaret Tweddell I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." Max Planck - Nobel Prize in Physics, quote from The Observer, London, January 25, 1931 When we love unselfishly, our vibrations are so high that the only place we'll fit into is heaven. There is no other place we can go if we want to. This is divine justice because it gives everyone an equal chance to eventually attain the harmony to fit into some kind of heaven - regardless of their intelligence, education, indoctrination, ignorance, wealth or poverty. Arthur Yensen After death people gravitate into homogenous groups according to the rate of their soul's vibrations much like throwing a small pebble into a threshing machine. It goes into the box that fits its proper size and weight. After death, we are sorted by the high or low vibrations of our soul. Everyone goes where they fit in! High vibrations indicate love and spiritual development, while low vibrations indicate debasement and evil. All one has to do is to love so unselfishly that their soul- vibrations rise high enough to fit into heaven. Arthur Yensen There is a step-up of energy at the moment of death, an increase in speed as if you are suddenly vibrating faster than before. Using radio as an analogy, this speed-up is comparable to having lived all your life at a certain radio frequency when all of a sudden someone or something comes along and flips the dial. That flip shifts you to another, higher wavelength. The original frequency where you once existed is still there. It did not change. Everything is still just the same as it was. Only you changed, only you speeded up to allow entry into the next radio frequency on the dial. You fit your particular spot on the dial by your speed of vibration. You cannot coexist forever where you do not belong. You shift frequencies in dying. You switch over to life on another wavelength. You are still a spot on the dial but you move up or down a notch or two. You don't die when you die. You shift your consciousness and speed of vibration. That's all death is ... a shift. Dr. PMH Atwater Heaven is a matter of vibration and the various realms after death is based on the various levels of spiritual energy that exists. As quantum physicists state, the 10 dimensions of reality exist within the same space as our universe and are based on the varying energy levels that exist. The reason we cannot see these multi- dimensional energy levels is the same reason we cannot see radio or television waves because they exist beyond the frequency on the light spectrum that we can see. For this reason, the realms of spiritual energy that exists after death, which is the same energy levels described by quantum physicists, is based on different frequencies of vibration. Love can be compared to heat that has vibrations that are finer that colder temperatures. The greater the love - the finer the vibration - and the closer we are to heaven. Heavier vibrations represent coldness and the heavier the vibrations the nearer we are to hell. Kevin Williams The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. Dr. Edwin Conklin, evolutionist and professor of biology at Princeton University. All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that life's complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did. Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it. (John Polkinghorne, Cambridge University physicist, "Science Finds God," Newsweek, 20 July, 1998) It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science! Ron Carlson Human DNA contains more organized information than the Encyclopedia Britannica. If the full text of the encyclopedia were to arrive in computer code from outer space, most people would regard this as proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. But when seen in nature, it is explained as the workings of random forces. George Sim Johnson "Did Darwin Get it Right?" The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 1999 I could prove God statistically; take the human body alone; the chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen, is a statistical monstrosity. George Gallup, the famous statistician The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer. Professor Richard Dawkins, an atheist This most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. Sir Isaac Newton, regarded as the greatest scientist of all time. When you break subatomic particles down to their most elemental level, you are left with nothing but pure light. Stephen Hawking Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose. J. B. S. Haldane God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. Paul Dirac Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals. John Bradshaw, Dog Sense If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. Neils Bohr |
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Nikola Tesla Time is, in fact, the hero of the plot... given so much time the 'impossible' becomes possible, the possible probable and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs miracles. George Wald, "The Origin of Life," Physics and Chemistry of Life, 1955, p. 12. Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe. Charles Townes, 1964 Nobel Prize winner in physics, "Science Finds God," Newsweek, 20 July, 1998 I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. William James The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10-340,000,000. This number is 1 to 10 to the 340 millionth power! The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there is only supposed to be approximately 10-80 (10 to the 80th power) electrons in the whole universe! Professor Harold Morowitz The complexity of the simplest known type cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle. Dr. Michael Denton, molecular biochemist The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle---an architect. Scientist Allan Sandage Not only does God play dice, but ... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. Stephen Hawking The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on... Stephen Hawking I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science. Albert Einstein Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world? Jeanette Winterson Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically excludes its existence will be susceptible to being trapped in an endless chase for materialistic causes that do not exist... Where there are sufficient grounds for inferring intelligent causation, based on evidence of "specified complexity," it should be considered as a component of scientific theories. Inclusion of intelligent causation in the scientific equation is not novel and has not impeded the practice of science in the past, e.g. Newton and Kepler, in an age when science was not constrained by a philosophical materialism, and by many current scientists who have remained open to following the evidence where it leads. Donald L. Ewert If you want to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first create an universe. Carl Sagan. It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. Terence McKenna I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson on ESP The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. Ilya Prigogine (Chemist-Physicist)Recipient of two Nobel Prizes in chemistry |