On the Other Hand

Somewhat contrary to my last argument, you have to be careful about what parallels one draws between physics and theology, as this article so aptly demonstrates:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/06/11/frank-tipler-says-physics-proves-christianity/

No, there is no grand unified theory of everything, not even close to what we would want in a grand unified theory. The fact that the universe started in a singularity is in fact widely accepted, this is known as the Big Bang (a church sponsored view I might add), however this is really not great proof for god, unless you want to bestow divinity upon what essentially was a universal black hole. Also while I'm at it, the advent of better computing is not necessarily a sign that revelations has come upon us and the alpha and the omega are about to hit the fan. Quantum computing, the next level of computing being discussed here, has only so far managed to calculate 5x3=15, a fair bit away from an AI causing Terminator. My personal favorite, from somebody who professes to be an expert no less,"Walking on water is accomplished through a particle beam and dematerialization through the multiple universe model implied by quantum theory.". Let me break that down for you, Tipler claims that Jesus through the power of bunches of really fast highly charged particles (about 19 or so centuries before the first particle accelerators, without a physical reason to be there)  somehow managed to use this in conjunction with "dematerialization" which in essence is teleportation (which only practically happens at a scale that makes atoms look pretty big, otherwise the probability of it happening is pretty much like winning the cosmic lottery for four years in a row around the world) to somehow make himself extremely buoyant. Beats me how he thinks high energy physics (hypothetical extremely sketchy physics in the case of the "multiple universe model") all combined to make Jesus walk on water.I mean does he think that suddenly particle beams exerted such energy on Christ's feet to keep him standing straight? its baffling. 

The conclusion to be drawn here though, is that the philosophy of Christianity and Physics is perhaps not so irreconcilable, trying to make physical law into a biblical explanation, doesn't work well. I've mentioned it before but it seems the laws of the universe are secular.