Physics prove god? Well I don't buy it.

My first post regards information about Professor Frank Tipler who is the subject of neotropic9's video Science Proves God Exists, Claims Ridiculous Professor

This is a summation of a book review of Frank Tipler’s book The Physics of Christianity. The review was written by Martin Gardner and can be found in the March / April 2008 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

In his book The Physics of Immortality, Tipler argued that modern physics proves that on a future date – which he calls the Omega Point - god will resurrect every person who lived as well as every person who could have lived. Our brains will be preserved as computer simulations and given new spiritual bodies to live happily forever in the paradise described in the New Testament.

- Now I'm not a scientists, but I'm thinking ... he's Coo Coo for Coco Puffs.

In his book The Physics of Christianity, he claims physics provides explanations of Christian miracles.

Some examples:

The star of Bethlehem was a supernova bursting in the galaxy of Andromeda. God timed it to signal the birth of Jesus.

The virgin birth was a rare case of parthenogenesis (asexual form of reproduction). Tipler believes this could be confirmed by Jesus’ blood on the Shroud of Turin.

- Now parthenogenesis does occur in some species, including some fishes. So could this be the connection to the Jesus Fish symbol? Jesus was part fish?

How is it, that Mary and Jesus are free of original sin while everyone else is not? Original sin genes! That’s right Mary and Jesus did not have those genes while I guess the rest of us do.

At this point Martin writes “I am, dear reader, doing my best to keep a straight face while I summarized Tipler’s convictions.”

Tipler then uses quotes from Stephen Hawking to state that the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is trivially true, which he uses to explain the resurrection of Jesus. Quote “…[god] guided the worlds of the multiverse to concentrate the energy of the particles constituting Jesus in our universe into the Jesus of our universe. In effect, Jesus’ dead body lying in the tomb, would have been enveloped in a sphaleron field. This field would have dematerialized Jesus’ boy into neutrinos and antineutrinos in a fraction of a second, after which the energy transferred back to the other worlds from whence it came. Reversing this process … would generate Jesus’ … body”

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Tipler explains that Jesus walked on water by directing a neutrino beam.

At the end of the review Martin writes “For a few moments after finishing The Physics of Christianity, I began to wonder if the book could be a subtle, hilarious hoax. Sadly it is not."