Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association

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.