Posted: Sep 28, 2010 7:28 pm
I took a brief look at the link for How to Spot Quantum Quackery, and was amused to see that the name of Deepak Chopra turns up pretty quickly.
It reminds me of this well known clip of a short interview that Richard Dawkins had with Deepak Chopra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FaXD_igv4
I suspect most of us have also seen Chopra’s performance in the lengthy YouTube film of a of 4-way debate with Sam Harris, and Michael Shermer, and Jean Houston -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8-Yxdphsg
All of which left me with the distinct impression that Chopra is nothing except a self promoting charlatan who is trying to enlist the concepts of Quantum Mechanics to somehow claim that because QM has revealed a very strange world of sub-atomic particle interactions and "Uncertainty", that somehow points to God.
The general idea seems to be that if things can behave according to an Uncertainty Principle, then we might as well conclude that it's a 50-50 chance that God may exist and that miracles happen.
It reminds me of this well known clip of a short interview that Richard Dawkins had with Deepak Chopra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FaXD_igv4
I suspect most of us have also seen Chopra’s performance in the lengthy YouTube film of a of 4-way debate with Sam Harris, and Michael Shermer, and Jean Houston -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8-Yxdphsg
All of which left me with the distinct impression that Chopra is nothing except a self promoting charlatan who is trying to enlist the concepts of Quantum Mechanics to somehow claim that because QM has revealed a very strange world of sub-atomic particle interactions and "Uncertainty", that somehow points to God.
The general idea seems to be that if things can behave according to an Uncertainty Principle, then we might as well conclude that it's a 50-50 chance that God may exist and that miracles happen.