![]() ![]() Perhaps the “quest for a theory of everything,” is, and will continually be, out of reach of our understanding. The pursuit of deep philosophy and physics appears to suggest that agnosticism-the philosophy and posture Kaku takes in this book-seems to be, not just the most honest, but actually the most reasonable. But we should not be so hard on religious apologists, for the pursuit of a better understanding of our “place in this world” is a laudable effort-a human effort-no matter how misguided the apologists’ assumptions and agenda might happen to be.Īs to the “existence of God.” Theists and atheists both make absolute claims. Apologists are unaware that they subvert their own cause by appealing to physics. ![]() Apologetics is a defense of a known belief. The problem, of course, is that physics is a discipline that does not adhere to the dogmatic assumptions of apologetics and is, therefore, a misapplied tool. There also persists a nagging impulse by religious apologists to continually defend their dogma using physics as one of the most frequently used tools of their arguments. Reality truly is strange, unknowability being its predominant feature. For one does get the sense that at the edges of all these disciplines is a reality not terribly dissimilar from the Singularity, where the intersection of physics and philosophy begins to yield runaway results that transcend both disciplines. Much like the moniker, the “God Particle,” “The God Equation” is perhaps more rhetorical than descriptive. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.
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