“Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.” WritingWellsHeartUseRealityReligionOrderCoursesLiteratureScientistMetaphorPatternsRationalConfusionAestheticPhysicist Author:Taner Edis
“Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.” WellsMightReligionCreationBecomingAbsolutesStuckQuantumMetaphysicalVacuumsTheistQuagmireBecoming Something Author:Taner Edis