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Heisenberg and God

Florian Hildebrand writes how, paraphrasing Francis Bacon who had said, "A little knowledge inclines a man to atheism, but the depth of it leads men's minds to religion," Heisenberg compared science to a cup of belief. . In this regard, he stated: The first sip of the cup of science makes you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you.

On the other hand, the Spanishized Romanian writer Vintilia Horia testifies to having listened to him: The theory of a created world is more probable than the opposite, from the point of view of natural sciences. Most of the scientists I know have managed to reach God.

Jacinto Peraire Ferrer, God in Lab. 53 nobel scientists who harmonized  faith and reason.  

There are more things in life than what your microscope dreams of

Can I check if the soul exists? Victor Frankl recounts how a university student once asked him what reality there could be in the soul, since it was totally invisible.

As he had never seen his soul, nor anyone else's, the most sensible thing to do - he concluded - is not to believe in fantasies that cannot be seen "

«I confirmed to you - writes Frankl - that it was not possible to see a soul through a dissection or through microscopic examination. Later I asked him why he was looking for the soul in that dissection or microscopic examination.

The young man replied that he was for the love of the truth. So I asked him if the love of truth was not something soulish, and if he believed that things like love of truth could be made visible through the microscopic way. "The young man understood that the invisible, the soulish, cannot be found through the microscope, but which are necessary things to be able to work with a microscope. Experimental science does not exhaust the possibilities of knowledge. If we throw into the sea a fishing net whose holes are square one meter on each side (the example is from Mariano Artigas), we will catch fish of more than one meter, leaving the challenge out.

Viktor Frankl  quoted by  Alfonso Aguiló in ¿Is it something reasonable to be a believer?

Randomcrazy.  You are here because your number has come up on the roulette wheel.

Our number has come up on the roulette wheel. this provocative J. Monod's phrase constitutes the motto of a widespread ideology, which considers the origin of the world as the fruit of chance and the life of man as a disturber of the cosmic balance.

A class polemicist, Cardinal Ratzinger does not let escape the opportunity: beauty, harmony, freedom fruits of chance! How much more rational and convincing is the Christian doctrine: God has created the cosmos, he has created to man, and he has entrusted the world to him to keep and take care of it. With his sin, man has carried the cosmos to disorder and it is now a matter of restoring the balance so that the glory of God and of the men.

Joseph Ratzinger Creation and sin.