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    God Nature & Science
    God Nature & Science
    God Nature & Science
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    God Nature & Science

    By Jonathan Sumber

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    Questions concerning the existence of God and the nature of the relationship between God, Nature and science have been topics that philosophers have been pondering over since the days of Plato and Socrates. In more recent years an interest in these topics have been rekindled, as the nature of reality itself is being questioned by many quantum physicists and philosophers as a result of what is being revealed in quantum research. While we are still a long way from being able to answer these questions through scientific methodology alone, quantum research continues to create information that has resulted in many researchers questioning if the universe within our perspective is the same as how the universe exists in the absence of it.

    For example, the worldview shared by most people is that our realities are created within a corporeal universe, and through the gathering of information by our five senses; our minds process the information into a conscious perspective which allows us to have an awareness of ourselves and of the universe that is truly “out there” just as we perceive it to be. But, if the universe within our perspective is a function of our conscious awareness, consciousness may be creating what we perceive rather than being passive by simply allowing us to perceive a corporeal universe that is truly out there. If so, it creates the likelihood that we will not be able to answer questions concerning the relationship between God, nature, and science until we have a much better understanding of the true nature of consciousness and from where all that we perceive within it, originates.

    This work explores how the fundamental character and qualities of God, nature and science as we presently conceptualize each to be, along with how their relationship with one another would be altered if consciousness was not passive in the creation of our reality, while proposing a philosophical system of physics that defines how this could occur.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOutskirts Press
    Release dateAug 8, 2023
    ISBN9781977266378
    God Nature & Science
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    Jonathan Sumber

    Other Books by Jonathan Sumber: On The Nature And Origin Of Time, Space, Gravity And Reality The Four States Of Reality (The reallusion hypothesis) The Nature Of Reality And The Universe (A solution to the measurement problem of quantum mechanics) The Universe Beyond The Standard Model

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