Heisenberg uncertainty cannot cause macroscopic miracles

[Alex]

From a UUHK member who is a professor of mathematics:

Both Heisenberg in his 1955 Physics and Philosophy and Schroedinger in his 1944 What is Life argue that particle uncertainty is not responsible for human free will. Their arguments are very similar.
 
Heisenberg's argument is later, after more is known and hence is stronger. He argues that there is certainty but that the preconditions for certainty are unknowable. Hence, we are left with probability distributions. In both cases the argument is that particles in large aggregates behave in a Newtonian manner with values at the probability distribution mean.
 
Schroedinger argues that life could not function if the underlying processes were subject to the random movements of elementary particles. For him even the relative size of particles to the molecules involved in biological processes is important.
 
Regarding miracles, much the same argument must hold: The aggregate of particles that must be in play in order to create a macro-observable event is sufficiently large to be Newtonian. Macroscopic physical miracles such as seas parting and storms subsiding must be explained in Newtonian terms or set aside as metaphorical.
 
I mention this as more than once have guests come to visit UUHK and attempt to explain their literal reading of the Bible in these terms.



Alex's comment:  Excellent!