Volume 78, 2004
Reckoning with the Tradition
Glenn Statile
Pages 107-117
The Uncertainty Principle and the Problem of God
This paper considers the relationship between quantum uncertainty and the problem of God. Among the issues considered are the existence and essence of
God, divine action, human freedom, and personal identity. In recent discussions concerning the relative merits of science and religion, thinkers like Ian Barbour
and John Haught have suggested several such credible, albeit tentative, connections between the two on the basis of the epistemological limit imposed upon human knowledge by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.