“Why I believe in the one who made the world” the nuclear physicist Antonio Zichichi

E’ common opinion that the laws of the universe discovered by science are in conflict with the inscrutable ones of God. The contrast between faith and science represents one of the most excruciating dilemmas of our time; a play that met its first controversial act with Galileo Galilei.

Zichichi, denies and overturns this opposition:

“There is no scientific discovery that can be used in order to question or deny the existence of God”

Just Galilei, discoverer of the principle of inertia, of relativity and of the first laws that govern creation, he was a believer and considered science an extraordinary tool to reveal the secrets of that nature that bears the footprints of the One who made the world. And believers were Maxwell and Planck, two fathers of contemporary physics, men who have discovered new horizons on the laws of the universe thanks to the study of infinitely small particles; so small that it cannot contain any trace of angels or saints, and therefore cannot be endorsed, apparently, no rational explanation of the existence of the divine.

The achievements of science do not obscure the divine laws, and strengthen, helping to awaken the amazement and admiration for the wonderful spectacle of the cosmos, that goes from the heart of a proton to the edge of the universe.

No scientific discovery has questioned the existence of God.

Science is the source of values ​​which are in communion, not in antithesis with the teaching of the Holy Scriptures, with the values ​​therefore of the Revealed Truth.

Neither Science nor Logic allow us to conclude that God does not exist.

No atheist can therefore delude himself into being more logical and scientific than he who believes. Those who choose atheism therefore make an act of faith: in nothing.

Believing in God is more logical and scientific than believing in nothing.

One could argue: from the moment it is impossible to reach God through the discovery of Mathematical Logic or due to a scientific discovery, neither Logic nor science can be relied on to arrive at the act of Faith. All of this is correct. In fact, faith is a gift from God. However, it is corroborated by the act of Reason in the Transcendent.

However, reflect a little. Mathematical Logic and Science are intellectual activities that operate in the Immanent.

If it were possible to prove the existence of God through a rigorous procedure of mathematical logic, God would be the equivalent of a mathematical theorem.

If it were possible to prove the existence of God through a series of strictly scientific researches, God would be the equivalent of a great scientific discovery.

If that were possible, man would be able to arrive at the supreme theorem: the mathematical proof of the existence of God.

That is the most extraordinary of all scientific discoveries: the discovery of God.

Theorem and discovery beyond which there could be nothing else. Both mathematical and scientific research, on the other hand, have a fundamental property in common. Each discovery opens up new horizons. Concepts never before imagined, Columns and Forces whose existence no one had been able to fantasize, they appear in the eyes of the researcher as stages on a seemingly endless journey.

He who made the world knows these things. Only one of your peers could know as much.

We are poor mortals: facts yes, in his image and likeness. However, deprived of His intellectual power. That's why I think we will never know all of Mathematics or all of Science.

There is an aspect of the reality we live in that particularly fascinates me: the journey without stopping, the ascent continues, in the study of Mathematical Logic and Science. This is possible thanks to the intellect that the One who made the world wanted to give us.

E’ an extraordinary privilege to have been invited to the table of reason that operates the Immanent and in the Transcendent. We are seated around that table, eager to learn, not to cast out the One who invited us. The table of reason, however, allows man to reflect on the Transcendent and the Immanent. And here is where the act of faith, which is a gift from God, it is combined with the act of reason. In fact, Reason is a gift from God.

Antonio Zichichi

0

0