Christianity is objectively correct so far as can be rationally known, and to the extent that other religions/philosophies contradict it, to that extent they are incorrect. The totality of all science has been a mostly-unwitting exercise in proving Christianity correct. The people who developed the various fields of modern science for the most part weren’t consciously attempting to prove Christianity true, yet they nonetheless ended up doing so. To wit:
God’s existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of Prof. Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler’s Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, “one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.” (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)
Prof. Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world’s leading physics and science journals, such as Reports on Progress in Physics (the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain’s main professional organization for physicists), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world’s leading astrophysics journals), the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (a journal that Nobel Prize in Physics winner Richard Feynman also published in), and Physics Letters, among other journals.
Prof. Tipler’s Ph.D. is in the field of Global General Relativity, which is the field created by Profs. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems in the 1960s. Global General Relativity is General Relativity applied on the scale of the entire universe as a whole, and is the most elite and rarefied field of physics. Tipler is also an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) and computer theory.
For much more on Prof. Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:
* James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/download/ThePhy…TheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god , WebCite query result .
Additionally, in the below resource are different sections which contain some helpful notes and commentary by me pertaining to multimedia wherein Prof. Tipler explains the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE.
* James Redford, “Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss’s Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?”, Apr. 18, 2019, Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss’s Debate – Pastebin.com , Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss’s Debate – Pastebin.… , 【魚拓】Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss’s Debate – Pastebin.com .
For the historical reliability of Jesus Christ’s bodily resurrection and the untenability of theories which deny his resurrection, see:
* Prof. William Lane Craig, “Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ”, Truth: A Journal of Modern Thought, Vol. 1 (1985), pp. 89-95, WebCite query result , Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrec… .
For more on the historicity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, see William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 3rd ed., 2008), Ch. 8: “The Resurrection of Jesus”, pp. 333-404, particularly pp. 360 ff.
Regarding the Christ myth theory, virtually all the items which the Christ myth theorists claim as facts which show the parallels of Christianity with earlier pagan religions are completely fabricated modern claims that can’t be found in the historical record. For an excellent discussion on this, see the following video:
* “Shattering the Christ Myth”, DrCraigJohnson (YouTube), Apr. 17, 2009, Shattering the Christ Myth – YouTube . Mirror: “Veritas Forum: Shattering the Christ Myth”, Bethel Christian Fellowship, 26:39 min:sec, https://www.bit chute.com/video/Uo1HFlDMDhtS/ , http://bethelchristianfellowship.info/flash_media/jp3ChristMythCopyCat.m4v , https://bit.ly/2PzXxtV .
The above video is an interview of James Patrick Holding (editor of Shattering the Christ Myth: Did Jesus Not Exist? [Maitland, Fla.: Xulon Press, 2008], https://amazon.com/dp/1606472712 ) by Dr. Craig Johnson on the topic of the Christ myth theory. See also the below resources regarding the Christ myth theory on J. P. Holding’s website:
* “Were Bible stories and characters stolen from pagan myths?”, Tekton Education and Apologetics Ministry, http://www.tektonics.org/copycathub.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20190111041306/http://www.tektonics.org/copycathub.html .
* “Did Jesus exist?”, op. cit., http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexisthub.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20190611232716/http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexisthub.html .
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As Prof. Tipler points out in the first video above, rejecting empirical science is how the physics community is handling what is for them this discomfiting outcome. Unfortunately, most modern physicists have been all too willing to abandon the laws of physics if it produces results that they’re uncomfortable with, i.e., in reference to religion. It’s the antagonism for religion on the part of the scientific community which greatly held up the acceptance of the Big Bang (for some 40 years), due to said scientific community’s displeasure with it confirming the traditional theological position of *creatio ex nihilo*, and also because no laws of physics can apply to the singularity itself: i.e., quite literally, the singularity is supernatural, in the sense that no form of physics can apply to it, since physical values are at infinity at the singularity, and so it is not possible to perform arithmetical operations on them; and in the sense that the singularity is beyond creation, as it is not a part of spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time.
In Prof. Stephen Hawking’s book coauthored with physicist Dr. Leonard Mlodinow and published in 2010, Hawking uses the String Theory extension M-Theory to argue that God’s existence isn’t necessary, although M-Theory has no observational evidence confirming it.
With String Theory and other nonempirical physics, the physics community is reverting back to the epistemological methodology of Aristotelianism, which held to physical theories based upon *a priori* philosophical ideals. One of the *a priori* ideals held by many present-day physicists is that God cannot exist, and so if rejecting the existence of God requires rejecting empirical science, then so be it.
For details on this rejection of physical law by physicists if it conflicts with their distaste for religion, see Sec. 5: “The Big Bang”, pp. 28 ff. of my aforecited “Physics of God” article.
The evolutionary psychological reason for the above-described bizarre behavior of physicists rejecting physical law when it demonstrates God’s existence is due to the naturally-evolved Jaynesian gods of old–i.e., the demons–seeking to distance people from genuine knowledge of God so that the demons may instead falsely present themselves as God. Among many permutations of this, it often manifests as various forms of etatism: the state becomes God. Demons are quite real, they however exist as naturally-evolved Minskian agent subset programs operating on the wet-computer of the human brain. For more on this, see my following article:
* James Redford, “Societal Sadomasochism”, Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://www.christianforums.com/threads/societal-sadomasochism.8111033/ , https://web.archive.org/web/2019041…s.com/threads/societal-sadomasochism.8111033/ , https://archive.is/85XlV .
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