The following are some quotes I found intriguing. They are taken from The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris Walker; you can click the link in the sidebar to order it. He is not overtly Christian (at least to this point). He has a Ph.D. in physics; he is not a philosopher, or at least from the school of philosophers.

He writes:

We weave daydreams, play lotteries, and plunge each evening into the TV screen. It takes us floating into a world of illusory concerns and escapist fantasy. We know it is illusion. But so is the rest. All the things that control the mind – books, magazines, letters, placards, posters, e-mail, faxes, data – all the things that tell us what to think are all a part of our world of fantasy. They are today’s religion. Where do we go for salvation?”

Physics is the cornerstone of our scientific knowledge. In the realm of actual knowledge, it provides us with the foundation, with the procedures, with the means for confirmation that we need if we are to search out and find the answers to those age-old questions . . .

“It is the path we have to take so that we may discover reality opened up to our vision, naked, like a lovely woman whose beauty and allure are at once mystery and revelation. Physics is the tool we must use to learn about reality. But it has its hazards. If we are not careful, she will ensnare us. If we are not careful, we may begin to believe there is nothing else but this physical reality” . . .

Modern physics as no place for any deity, and the message rings even in the ears of the vandal in the street: ‘There is no sacrilege – only the moment, only the event’ . . .

“Today people need proof in order to believe, and they deserve that proof. The degeneration in the values of our society is not due to the waywardness of the people or to the affluence that permits a lax morality. It is not the secular city or drugs or a rebellious youth that has caused society to drift away from God. It is, instead, the message of science borne on the wings of our fast technology. It is the thinking of intellectuals of a century ago that has come down to the streets. The ideas that are today a matter of academic speculation begin tomorrow to move armies and topple empires.

“It is the perceptions of our science, the tenets of modern physics so well summarized by Davies, that now instruct our futures – into the streets. But it is all wrong.

Harvey Cox writes, ‘I have tried to make clear that metaphysical operations cannot be muted by the secular age, but that the metaphysical systems will neither again integrate whole societies nor still men’s persistent questions as once they did.’ But Cox is dreadfully wrong. There are answers. The truth does exist, and when the truth is honestly sought, with a mind that is ready to accept the truth, whatever the truth turns out to be, then the answers do come, and the answers change people.”

We will gaze through an open doorway, looking beyond the lifeless forms that our lives have become – looking beyond, into the very face of God.”


2 Cor 1:13