I am speaking of an abstract entity that would "bind" or "bundle" all the forces; it would be spontaneous, i.e. it is the true freedom that makes everything else possible.
I consider myself a scientifically minded person, however I find the usual approach of "rationalists" unsatisfying when they relegate all authority to the "laws of nature". Certainly there are laws of nature; but something has to make those laws possible, right?
Whether you call it "God" or not is not that important to me. But let's just bundle the attributes I mean:
1) Omnipresence (there is no "outside" of God)
2) Omnipotence (the creation of everything)
3) Omniscience (really equal with the first two)
These are the classical Christian ones. I obviously do not add benevolence since that is a wholly anthropocentric category. Perhaps we could further add:
4) Source of all law
5) Enacts law perpetually (I don't believe it could work as a one time creation event; rather there has to be a perpetual "enacting" of law in every "point" in spacetime)
6) It has to be radically free (this would be the only "thing" that escapes determinism)
As possible candidates for this I always considered the quantum fields, since they stretch everywhere and manifest both matter and law (messenger particles apparently mediate mass and we hypothesize they could mediate gravity).
Anyways. tl;dr: Do you think there is a place for a concept like "God" in science?
I consider myself a scientifically minded person, however I find the usual approach of "rationalists" unsatisfying when they relegate all authority to the "laws of nature". Certainly there are laws of nature; but something has to make those laws possible, right?
Whether you call it "God" or not is not that important to me. But let's just bundle the attributes I mean:
1) Omnipresence (there is no "outside" of God)
2) Omnipotence (the creation of everything)
3) Omniscience (really equal with the first two)
These are the classical Christian ones. I obviously do not add benevolence since that is a wholly anthropocentric category. Perhaps we could further add:
4) Source of all law
5) Enacts law perpetually (I don't believe it could work as a one time creation event; rather there has to be a perpetual "enacting" of law in every "point" in spacetime)
6) It has to be radically free (this would be the only "thing" that escapes determinism)
As possible candidates for this I always considered the quantum fields, since they stretch everywhere and manifest both matter and law (messenger particles apparently mediate mass and we hypothesize they could mediate gravity).
Anyways. tl;dr: Do you think there is a place for a concept like "God" in science?