Quantum theory

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What is quantum theory?
Physics that deals with matter of the smallest scales e.g. atoms and quarks
What does quantum theory suggest?
That old debates about God and nature need to be revised to take it into account
what is the implication of quantum theory for religion?
God perhaps works in the world by influencing events at the quantum level
what does Bohr (quantum physicist) hold?
that uncertainty was built into nature, suggesting that what happens in the world has a degree of randomness, how would God control/influence such a world?
in answer to Bohr, what does Polkinghorne argue?
‘It is at the quantum level that God interacts with the world’
when we get to events at our level of experience…?
events are no longer random, they can be described by the laws of science, so god can bring about order from disorder
what does quantum physics perhaps preserve?
our free will, free will is a reality that happens in the brain’s quantum process