FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 7-9 PM
STARTING SCIENCE FROM GOD
with physicist Ian Thompson
Many of us sense there is something real beyond the scope of naturalistic science. But what? Must mental and religious lives always remain a mystery and never become part of scientific knowledge? Can theism ever be connected with science?
Professor Ian Thompson will explain a new rational approach to combining science and theism. He presents theism as a scientific theory, explaining its basic postulates, consequences and predictions as simply as possible and without paradox. Dr. Thompson shows how a following of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the universe.
We will see if those predictions agree with the world as we observe it, both externally in nature and internally in our minds. In fact, they mesh surprisingly well with the structure of reality already revealed by modern quantum field theory and by theories of developmental stages in human minds.
The result is a promising new rational theory encompassing theology, psychology and physics.
Dr. Ian Thompson is a nuclear physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey in England, where until 2006 he was Professor of Physics. For more information see his website, Ian Thompson
LOCATION: 77 W. Washington St., 17th floor,
Chicago, Illinois.
DATE: Friday, June 6, 2014
TIME: 7-9 PM; refreshments 6-7 PM.
FEE: $10.
Many of us sense there is something real beyond the scope of naturalistic science. But what? Must mental and religious lives always remain a mystery and never become part of scientific knowledge? Can theism ever be connected with science?
Professor Ian Thompson will explain a new rational approach to combining science and theism. He presents theism as a scientific theory, explaining its basic postulates, consequences and predictions as simply as possible and without paradox. Dr. Thompson shows how a following of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the universe.
We will see if those predictions agree with the world as we observe it, both externally in nature and internally in our minds. In fact, they mesh surprisingly well with the structure of reality already revealed by modern quantum field theory and by theories of developmental stages in human minds.
The result is a promising new rational theory encompassing theology, psychology and physics.
Dr. Ian Thompson is a nuclear physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey in England, where until 2006 he was Professor of Physics. For more information see his website, Ian Thompson
LOCATION: 77 W. Washington St., 17th floor,
Chicago, Illinois.
DATE: Friday, June 6, 2014
TIME: 7-9 PM; refreshments 6-7 PM.
FEE: $10.
