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Summary:
by Kanen K. Abrahamson
2005

Albert Einstein once wrote to Niels Bohr: "I [believe] in a world of something objectively existing which I try to catch in a wildly speculative way." Karl R. Popper notes that what Einstein "was after (though he knew he would hardly catch it) was the real world, of which he hoped to give a true description." But capturing a true understanding of the real world had suddenly become much more difficult, for with Einsteins discovery of special and general relativity the picture of the world had dramatically changed. Suddenly physics was faced with the need to incorporate both objective and subjective elements within its definition of reality from a scientifically and critically realist perspective. The discovery of quantum mechanics and the notion of complementarity, with its redefinition of what constituted objective reality at the subatomic level, only heightened this need. Commenting on the contributions of physics to the field of metaphysics, Abner Shimony comments: ..

Category: Biblical Theology

Tags: Dichotomy, John Polkinghorne, Hermeneutic, Hermeneutics