If the importance
we give to religion and philosophy in describing mankind is fixated on a
false premise, "that we are important", the apotheosis of the
Darwinistic trail which prides itself in the surety
of thoughtful analysis. If there is no surety, no meaningful prognosis
and our culture has, at its base, chaos and total unpredictability,
what does it do for our belief in a religious insurance.
God
is often accused of rolling the dice but what if the dice he rolls are
completely indeterminate with no chance of predicting the outcome, it would surely
send the most enthusiastic Las Vagus addict home on the next bus.
If
the sub matter, the sub atomic partials which makes us, is determined
by a quantum of energy which exists for a quantum of time before dying,
and even
in its short life is totally unpredictable to the point that its
existence, relative to place, is unknowable. If the essence of all that is around us, including ourselves, is dubious, how can we begin to understand how we came into being.
This
is the ingredient we have to work with. An unknowable, unpredictable,
place irrelevant, sub quantum set of partials which is at the root of us all.
I
suppose scaled up, it pretty much describes mankind but in our quest to
give everything set rules to describe and to exist by, (much like the
bible),
we find there are no rules, there is no description that can be tested
through observation, that everything is ruled by hypothesis.
"I
think therefore I am"."Cogito ergo sum" is based on the knowledge that
by thinking we can know. But what if we can't know, what if knowing is out of
reach.
Is
it not therefore, (philosophically) the case that, "I can not think,
therefore I cease to exist". If I cease to exist at the margin how can I claim
with surety that I exist at all if the marginal mix is a phantasy.
Of
course the fact that whilst "to exist" is at least a comforting
supposition, it draws us into a nightmarish world where knowledge begins to reveal that
we don't know very much at all.
Previously
everything in science was built on fundamentals revealed by science and
in science if the fundamentals can't be verified by observation, then
empirical science cannot say for certain the thing exists. For
instance, Science's view on religion can only be conjecture, no better or worse than the 'Popes' view.
And
so it seems, in the case of quantum physics we are no nearer than
conjecture, the type of conjectural thinking which led to a belief in God.
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