Re: Creatio ex nihilo

David Bowman (dbowman@tiger.gtc.georgetown.ky.us)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:26:56 EDT

Regarding Chuck Warman's question:

>A couple of weeks ago, I heard RC Sproul postulate this re quantum physics:
> Subatomic particles simultaneously disappear at one point and reappear at
>another, in apparent violation of, among other things, the law of
>non-contradiction. *If* what seems to be happening is actually happening
>(he's unconvinced), it would be the greatest scientific evidence for the
>existence of God yet discovered, in that the phenomenon would require a
>creative force operating outside the laws of physics.
>
>WDYT?

I think that RCS should stick to theology. Quantum virtual processes
involving subatomic particles operate *within* (not outside of) the laws of
physics.

David Bowman
dbowman@gtc.georgetown.ky.us