Atheists often claim that as science progresses, belief in God and the ‘supernatural’ retreats. They expect that one day Science will convincingly explain all things which believers erroneously attribute to God, as being the product of purely ‘natural’ causes. As such they believe that scientific progress will inevitably lead to the death of belief in God, as an explanation for observed phenomena in the physical universe.
This ‘belief’ is unwavering, even as the Big Bang theory and advancement in molecular biology has shown the reverse to be true. Yet most dangerous to the Atheist delusion, is the branch of science known as Quantum Mechanics. This article will attempt to shed some light on why this is the case.
The Atheist/Naturalist believes that ‘mind’ is produced by material processes. Yet quantum physics makes this impossible. Firstly, because it shows that at the level of sub-atomic particles, ‘matter’ exists only as possibilities, until a consciousness ‘actualises’ that possibility into a physical reality. This manifestly implies that all macro-objects exist due to a Transcendent Consciousness that is consistently observing the world, since the particles that form them would not exist without such a Consciousness. As Amit Goswami explains here:
in the materialist paradigm we don’t have any causal efficacy. We are nothing but the brain, which is made up of atoms and elementary particles. So how can a brain which is made up of atoms and elementary particles convert a possibility wave that it itself is? It itself is made up of the possibility waves of atoms and elementary particles, so it cannot convert its own possibility wave into actuality. This is called a paradox. Now in the new view, consciousness is the ground of being. So who converts possibility into actuality? Consciousness does, because consciousness does not obey quantum physics. Consciousness is not made of material. Consciousness is transcendent. Do you see the paradigm-changing view right here—how consciousness can be said to create the material world? The material world of quantum physics is just possibility. It is consciousness, through the conversion of possibility into actuality, that creates what we see manifest. In other words, consciousness creates the manifest world.
To put it simply. Experiments in quantum physics have shown convincingly that without a conscious observer the Universe would never even materialise. Of course some Atheists like to delude themselves about this fact and suggest ways around this reality, but any impartial assessment of Quantum Physics leads inescapably to this very conclusion.
Secondly, the advance of quantum physics has dispelled the myth of concrete physical objects occupying a fixed point in space. Instead we now know that everything is made up of subatomic particles, that are identical to one another. So that the difference between one object and and another, is a concept that exists purely due to our perception. There is no conceivable way in which a physical object made of sub-atomic particles (like the Brain) could become conscious due to ‘biological complexity’ or chemistry etc. All ideas of complexity and identification of chemicals and physical processes emerge due to the existence of Consciousness. I.e. if Consciousness did not cause us to perceive the difference between a human brain and an ipod, there literally would be no difference between the two. See this article for more information. The clear conclusion is that God causes the universe to appear as in the wide variety of forms we consider to be material.