Quantum uncertainty would allow the Creator to occupy multiple states at once, answering Zeno’s dichotomy paradox. In theory, the Creator’s quantum levels/applications could even be infinite. Can the Creator create a rock so large that He can and cannot lift it? Can He then proceed to both lift it and not lift it? These opposite actions make no sense generally in our language, except perhaps under the rubric of quantum mechanics.
Is it better to assume man is using linguistics to accomplish ignorance of some fact or experience in the universe, or is it better to assume that the Creator is handicapped? According to C.S. Lewis, trying to limit the Creator’s omnipotence with mutually exclusive wordplay is illogical. Lewis would argue that a person cannot say that the Creator cannot do something that does not exist. In other words, Lewis argues that when the bible says that ‘in the Creator all things are possible,’ this means that the Creator can do all things possible, not that He can do the impossible. The impossible does not exist materially, concludes Lewis, because it is not a ‘thing.’
I see the question as whether infinite dimensions/concepts/applications can subsume the impossible. Is there a perspective one could take of the impossible that makes it ‘thing-like?’ Do you feel your imagination is thingy?
Quantum Uncertainty
July 14, 2009
22 Tammuz 5769