I am deeply suspicious of attempts to justify particular religious or philosophical doctrines with scientific discoveries: for one thing, there are always counter-examples; more importantly, I think that when science serves a mythological function, it stops being science.
None the less, I could not resist dropping into a talk on quantum physics and theology yesterday. I was gratified to rediscover from it that there is practically nothing that quantum physics can tell us about God. But it is always good to have a refresher course in the absolute strangeness of the universe, and in the inadequacies of our common-sense intuitions. In particular, the thought struck me, half way through, that Schroedinger's cat might still be alive if only there had been a window in its box. It might be dead, too. The point is that it would have to be one or the other, whereas within a windowless box it can be neither, and, so far as we know, it is.
