Potchefstroom, Aug 4th, 2009
Prior to leaving Charlotte, I got a last-minute request to teach for Prof. Anne Karstens’ 1st year Philosophy Class on “Quantum Physics and Truth” and so was quite excited about it. In this talk at 10am this morning, I spoke about how Quantum Physics has been wrongly used to propagate the false idea that nature is random, and so our ethics and morality are also random. There were about 20 students in the class, and since they didn’t have a physics background, half the talk was on understanding the physics behind Quantum Theory, and the other half on the philosophical problems that have arisen from it. Several students stayed behind to discuss how theories from the scientific domain have been hijacked and misapplied to attack the notion that God exists or to deny that objective morality (universal understanding of right and wrong) existed. One student in particular was a 3rd year Law student who was now studying philosophy and had a keen interest in Christian Apologetics.
