Dr. Gerald Schroeder

[Jim_Baur]

Who is Dr. Gerald Schroeder?

Is his science widely accepted?

THANKS!!!

All comments will be of help.

 

[Andrew_Lorimer]

Who is Dr. Gerald Schroeder?..

…All comments will be of help.

I provide two links:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Schroeder

geraldschroeder.com/AccordingToGod.aspx

I haven’t heard of him before but he seems to be a well respected academic. Why don’t you read one of his works and satisfy yourself?

 

[yppop]

Who is Dr. Gerald Schroeder?

Is his science widely accepted?

THANKS!!!

All comments will be of help.

Jim,
He has a PHD in Physics and a background in chemistry and biology. Lived in Israel since 1971. I have read two of his books, "The Hidden face of God" and “The Science of God”. Both are worth reading. He is definitely a not a materialist; he believes in a “spiritual” component of reality. However, I believe he may be a pantheist based on this:

“… And before this [the big bang] there was neither time nor space nor matter. That speck [the singularity] was the entire universe. There was no other space. No outside to the inside of creation. Creation was everwhere at once and. And then the space and the energy stretched out to form all that exists today in the heavens and on the earth …” from The Hidden Face Of God, pg 3.

Yppo

 

[JDaniel]

Jim,
He has a PHD in Physics and a background in chemistry and biology. Lived in Israel since 1971. I have read two of his books, "The Hidden face of God" and “The Science of God”. Both are worth reading. He is definitely a not a materialist; he believes in a “spiritual” component of reality. However, I believe he may be a pantheist based on this:

“… And before this [the big bang] there was neither time nor space nor matter. That speck [the singularity] was the entire universe. There was no other space. No outside to the inside of creation. Creation was everywhere at once and. And then the space and the energy stretched out to form all that exists today in the heavens and on the earth …” from The Hidden Face Of God, pg 3.

Yppop:

I’d like to ask him to explain that a bit more. You may be right, on the other hand, perhaps our inability to perfectly express our ideas has something to do with it. I haven’t read either book, but will look for them because of your referral!

God bless, Yppop,
jd

 

[Charlemagne_II]

I doubt that Schroeder is a pantheist.

In chapters 3 & 4 of The Science of God he makes an interesting case to demonstrate the rough parallels between the six days of creation described in Genesis and the scientific history of the universe.

 

[yppop]

Yppop:

I’d like to ask him to explain that a bit more. You may be right, on the other hand, perhaps our inability to perfectly express our ideas has something to do with it. I haven’t read either book, but will look for them because of your referral!

God bless, Yppop,
jd

JD
Schroeder is one of the few persons (beside you and me) that I have read who has come to the amazing realization that we are little more than “space”. Here is what he wrote in “The Hidden Face of God”:

First, we discover that solid matter, the floor upon which we stand and the foundation that bears the weight of a skyscraper, is actually empty space. If we could scale the center of an atom, the nucleus, up to four inches, the surrounding electron cloud would to four miles away and essentially all the breach between would be marvelously empty. The solidity of iron is actually 99.9999999999999 percent startling empty space made to feel solid by ethereal fields of force having no material reality at all. Hollywood would have rejected such a script out of hand and yet it is a proven reality. But don’t knock your head against that space. Force fields can feel very solid.

I agree whole heartedly with his observation about matter/space, but not with his implication that it is a force field that gives the feeling of materiality.

IMO materiality is the result of the absence of “discrete” space (the implicate view). Since motion is the incremental reconfiguration of the s-points that constitute the stuff that gives dimensionality to the universe because where there are no s-points to be reconfigured, there can be no motion. The feeling of solidity that one feels when running into a solid wall, exists solely within the spiritual component (infinite nothingness) of the mind. The infinite nothingness (or, as I call it, nous, when contained in the body, mostly in the brain) is like continuous space in that it is infinitely divisible.

And later on Schroeder writes:
It may take a while longer for us to discover that there is some no-thing even more fundamental than energy that forms the basis for energy, which in turn forms the basis for matter.

IMO it is the no-thing I refer to as infinite nothingness.

Nice to hear from you!

Yppop

 

[JDaniel]

JD
Schroeder is one of the few persons (beside you and me) that I have read who has come to the amazing realization that we are little more than “space”. Here is what he wrote in “The Hidden Face of God”:

First, we discover that solid matter, the floor upon which we stand and the foundation that bears the weight of a skyscraper, is actually empty space. If we could scale the center of an atom, the nucleus, up to four inches, the surrounding electron cloud would to four miles away and essentially all the breach between would be marvelously empty. The solidity of iron is actually 99.9999999999999 percent startling empty space made to feel solid by ethereal fields of force having no material reality at all. Hollywood would have rejected such a script out of hand and yet it is a proven reality. But don’t knock your head against that space. Force fields can feel very solid.

I agree whole heartedly with his observation about matter/space, but not with his implication that it is a force field that gives the feeling of materiality.

IMO materiality is the result of the absence of “discrete” space (the implicate view). Since motion is the incremental reconfiguration of the s-points that constitute the stuff that gives dimensionality to the universe because where there are no s-points to be reconfigured, there can be no motion. The feeling of solidity that one feels when running into a solid wall, exists solely within the spiritual component (infinite nothingness) of the mind. The infinite nothingness (or, as I call it, nous, when contained in the body, mostly in the brain) is like continuous space in that it is infinitely divisible.

And later on Schroeder writes:
It may take a while longer for us to discover that there is some no-thing even more fundamental than energy that forms the basis for energy, which in turn forms the basis for matter.

IMO it is the no-thing I refer to as infinite nothingness.

Nice to hear from you!

Yppop

Thank you. I learn from you each time we converse. And, I agree that it is not “force fields” that elicit solidity.

If our continuous space is mostly realized in our brains, then it stands to reason that concursus is achievable via that physical connective pathway. That makes sense.

I have a primitive picture of the Eucharist in my mind, but don’t quite know how to succinctly describe it, except to say that Jesus is not merely a “soul,” as you described them in our earlier conversations. It is interesting to have this vision of it though.

God bless,
jd