Why does Christianity (and other faith-based groups) claim quantum mechanics backs up their religion?
I am a physics major and as of yet, I have seen nothing in quantum mechanics to either refute or justify Christianity. In a way, quantum mechanics is a jigsaw puzzle that physicists are trying to piece together and there are spaces still left empty. I’m hearing from some religious groups that these "spaces" are empty because only an act of God can be the explanation. However, couldn’t it be that the "space" is filled in with something like an undiscovered elementary particle or something? Or perhaps that part of quantum theory is just wrong? Why do various groups try to use quantum mechanics to either refute or justify God’s existence when it really seems to do neither?
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I have seen the What The Bleep movie (have you?). I haven’t personally heard Xtians use QM/P to justify their version of reality. What I’ve heard is scientists saying that the mere fact that things you’d think would be provable are not provable, and that in itself brings into question the genesis of our universe and the force behind it. I think they answer the question of life with a question – that we’ll never know the answer to, but the inquiry is fascinating and we keep learning that we don’t know as much as we think we do. Reality is not as real and solid as we assume.