Breaking Free

I saw this new release over the weekend, and the only disappointment I had was in the small number of people who were there. This is worth seeing, and you really should go see it soon because it probably won’t be around long.

I am a scientist by training, and it has always bugged me that ’scientists’ neglect their own rules when it comes to Intelligent Design. It doesn’t matter what religion you are, if you claim, as a scientist, that any god or gods created the universe, you run into an academic stonewall. The scientists interviewed in the movie are more willing to accept that life on earth was planted by aliens than they are that some god may have made it happen.

I have two points I want to bring up that are not mentioned in the movie. First (even though this is implied, it is not specifically mentioned), it is one of the tenets of science that you try to work with ‘multiple working hypotheses.’ Rarely in science is there only one hypothesis - but when there is only one hypothesis, science dictates that that hypothesis must be THE working hypothesis. Well, it so happens that the origin of the universe is one such event. There is only one real hypothesis on the ‘how’ of the origin of the universe. When you get to the nitty-gritty of the question, ‘How did the first life form from non-life?’ there is only ONE working hypothesis, and that hypothesis is that some sort of intelligence designed it, Intelligent Design.

Scientists should be rallying around the idea, trying either to prove or disprove it, but instead they ignore it, even defame it as not worthy of thought. In fact, lacking any other hypothesis, it is the ONLY hypothesis worthy of thought.

Second, quantum physics wasn’t mentioned in the movie, but it is far more important in regards to this question than most people realize. Without even knowing it, most scientists have been influenced by modern-day thinking on this subject, and the universally-accepted theories all pretty much dictate against Intelligent Design. Quantum physics happens to be a hobby of mine, and I have studied it rather extensively. You probably haven’t, so you’ll have to take my word for what follows. The universe is weird. It’s really weird. Einstein showed a little of its weirdness in his theory of time dilation, which says that as you go faster, time slows down for you (and this has been quite adequately proven experimentally, so much so that it is taken into consideration on space flights). But that ain’t nothin’ compared to more modern quantum physics. There are basically three quantum theories out there, and all of them end up in an absolutely non-deterministic universe, in which everything that happens is essentially random (Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is a key part of this thinking). They all are in conformity with a very elegant conclusion developed by John Bell, known as ‘Bell’s Inequality.’ And it so happens that Bell’s Inequality has also been proven quite adequately by experiments. Einstein went to his grave arguing against modern-day quantum physics theories (his famous quote “God doesn’t play dice with the universe was directed at them), saying that we’ve missed something, that there must be some (what he called) “hidden variables.” Well, Bell’s Inequality and the subsequent experimental evidence indicate that there are no hidden variables. However, there is something that they all miss. There is an assumption that they all (even Einstein) made, and Bell’s Inequality is also based on that assumption.

Before I tell you that assumption, I’m telling you that unless Bell’s Inequality can be circumvented, and unless another valid theory of quantum physics can come to light, scientists are actually right in ignoring Intelligent Design. I believe in Intelligent Design, and I therefore believe there must be some other answer. OK, the assumption that everyone makes, including Einstein, John Bell, Heisenberg, Neils Bohr, Schroedinger, Everett, Bohm, and also you and (in everyday life) me is that causality moves forward through time. If we take away that assumption, it makes Bell’s Inequality literally meaningless to the conversation (because it is an essential assumption on his part that causality move forward through time), and it allows for a completely different approach to quantum physics. I have proposed this in an article and press release in which I propose a particle called the backyon, the ‘hidden variable.’ I know this sounds far out, but believe me, otherwise modern-day quantum physics leads to little other conclusion than that there really is no god.