God --> Retroactive Teleogical Causation

From: Russell E. Rierson (analog57_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:01:54 +0000 (UTC)

"George Hammond" <nowhere@nomailspam.com> wrote in message news:<wL-dnS-gqJkxJ8vcRVn-qw@comcast.com>...

> [Hammond]
> Berkeley was right, and 200 years later Mary Baker Eddy
> rediscovered Berkeley's principle and declared that
> "God is Mind" and "Heaven is a mental state" and founded
> one of the most successful and influential modern Christian
> Denominations on that theory. She was right too. And now
> HAMMOND has found the scientific proof of it.

Does the SPoG agree with Frank Tipler's "Omega Point Theory"? :

http://www.math.tulane.edu/%7Etipler/

QUOTE:

"The Omega Point Theory

I have presented and defended my Omega Point Theory at length in my
book The Physics of Immortality (Doubleday, 1994), which is available
from Barnes and Noble or Amazon. As science, the Omega Point Theory
makes five basic claims about the universe:

(1) the universe is spatially closed (has finite spatial size and has
the topology of a three-sphere),

(2) there are no event horizons, implying the future c-boundary is a
point --- the Omega Point,

(3) Life must eventually engulf the entire universe and control it,

(4) the amount of information processed between now and the final
state is infinite,

(5) the amount of information stored in the universe diverges to
infinity as the final state is approached.

I can show that these five basic claims directly follow from the most
fundamental laws of physics: unitarity, general relativity with
attractive gravity, and the Bekenstein Bound (aka the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle). An outline of my proof is given on this web
page.

I also argue that the ultimate future state of the universe, the Omega
Point, should be identified with God. I have presented my argument in
detail in my book The Physics of Immortality, but a main reason for my
identification Omega Point = God, comes from Exodus 3:14. In this
passage, God is speaking to Moses from the Burning Bush. God gives
Moses His Name: EHYEH ASHER EHYEH (in Hebrew, of course). God's Name
is best translated into English as I SHALL BE WHAT I SHALL BE. In
other words, God is telling Moses that His essence is future tense. If
we regard God as something Ultimate, then He is telling us that He is
the Ultimate Future. Hence my identification Omega Point = God. My
translation of EHYEH ASHER EHYEH is taken from the Oxford University
Study Bible (Revised Standard Version), but the great German religious
leader Martin Luther translated EHYEH ASHER EHYEH the same way into
German: ICH WERDE SEIN, DER ICH SEIN WERDE. Luther's translation of
the Bible was to the German language as the King James version was to
the English language.

I am also including on this web page two critical defenses of both my
scientific argument and my theological argument.

My science is defended by Dr. David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford
University. In January of 1998, Deutsch was awarded the Dirac Medal
for his invention of the quantum computer. Deutsch's defense of my
science is taken from his brilliant book The Fabric of Reality
(Penguin Books, 1997). This book is available from either Barnes and
Noble or Amazon. I can strongly recommend this book for its
presentation of the Many-Worlds Interpretation, the physics upon which
the quantum computer is based. In fact, I agree with almost everything
Deutsch says in his book. Where we disagree, I believe it is only
because Deutsch has rejected his own theory! I shall reproduce here
(with permission) most of the 14th Chapter of Deutsch's book.

My theology is defended by Professor Wolfhart Pannenberg, a theologian
at the University of Munich, Germany. Professor Pannenberg has been
called "the most brilliant living theological mind". He has been
termed "one of the three great theologians of the 20th century". He
holds five honorary doctors of divinity degrees. He is eminently
qualified to judge theology. Professor Pannenberg's paper, which I
reproduce here (with his permission) was originally presented at a
conference on my book, held in June of 1997 in Innsbruck, Austria.

Amusingly, the theologian Pannenberg is dubious about some of my
physics, and the physicist Deutsch doesn't like my theology! As you
will read, Pannenberg does not like the Many- Worlds Interpretation
(which Deutsch --- and I --- believe in because it is required by
quantum mechanics). Deutsch defends the MWI in his book. I am placing
on this web page another defense of the MWI, entitled "Quantum
Nonlocality Does Not Exist," which shows that locality --- a
fundamental fact of relativity --- is restored to physics by the MWI.
I might add that most of the great physicists --- Richard Feynman,
Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg, Stephen Hawking, for examples ---
have publicly announced their support for the MWI.

I have included my replies to Deutsch's criticisms of my theology in
the excerpts from Deutsch's book. Deutsch does not like the idea of
God as the Ultimate Future, but Pannenberg many years ago concluded,
as I have, that the Bible says God is the Ultimate Future."

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