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Presented by Zia H Shah MD

Sometimes we reach an impasse between science and religion.

Many of us have all at times criticized scientific imperialism or religious fundamentalism or obsession.

Freeman Dyson calls both science and religion as mysteries and in so doing opens up the dialogue between different points of views, rather than shutting them down.

He calls theology is a kind of literature rather than science and calls both religion and science as mysteries. This certainly creates an atmosphere of free discussion rather than creating impasse.

Around minute 10 of the second video above he talks about fine tuning of the universe. He called argument from design as a good argument but thought that it is not science. He called himself a dualist when it comes to human consciousness. His God is not Omniscient and is part of the universe.

Freeman John Dyson FRS (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020)^[1] was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering.^[a][3] He was professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a member of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.^[4]

Dyson originated several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson’s transform, a fundamental technique in additive number theory,^[5] which he developed as part of his proof of Mann’s theorem;^[6] the Dyson tree, a hypothetical genetically engineered plant capable of growing in a comet; the Dyson series, a perturbative series where each term is represented by Feynman diagrams; the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a space-faring civilization would meet its energy requirements with a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output; and Dyson’s eternal intelligence, a means by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe could escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by extending subjective time to infinity while expending only a finite amount of energy.

The Muslim Times has a very extensive collection of articles on the theme of religion and science

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