Co-Founder of String Theory and Physicist, Michio Kaku believes in God, if not that God

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[Secret Agent Man]

Thats some little dance he’s doing there.

[Yo-Yo]

[Steely Tom]

Who is this guy? Why is he so prominent? I've listened to him a time or two, and he seems completely fake to me. Is he a scientist of some sort? What has he ever accomplished that is real?

He seems to me to be the science equivalent of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmarked

[Simon Green]

Thats some little dance he’s doing there.

How so? He laid out his position quite clearly.

[fishtank]

There's no such thing as an atheist.

Anyone who says so - are in conscious or unconscious denial.

[mbarker12474]

We Christians get all excited over the reasoned arguments for Intelligent Design. We should curb our enthusiasm a bit, for proof of the existence of an Intelligent Designer does not also demonstrate the existence of the God of our Hebrew Bible.

Our Christian and Hebrew God did much more than design the universe intelligently. He spoke to Abraham, chose the Jews, made the sun stop one afternoon, played games with Pharoah, let Satan toy with Job, sent Jesus to earth, and so on. Intelligent Design touches none of these particular and fundamental things.

[SeekAndFind]

This book of his was fascinating...



While attending Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, Kaku assembled a particle accelerator in his parents' garage for a science fair project.[citation needed] His admitted goal was to generate "a beam of gamma rays powerful enough to create antimatter." At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship.

Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and was first in his physics class.

He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in 1972, and that same year held a lectureship at Princeton University.

As part of the research program in 1975 and 1977 at the department of physics at The City College of The City University of New York, Kaku worked on research on quantum mechanics.

He was a Visitor and Member (1973 and 1990) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and New York University. He currently holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York.

Kaku has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals such as Physical Review, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. In 1974, Kaku and Prof. Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University co-authored the first papers describing string theory in a field form

[fishtank]

(they) are...

(anyone) is....

[Slyfox]

LOL

[fishtank]

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[KC Burke]

Exactly the opposite. Third generation Japanese American and not a leftist puke like most of the TV scientists. Great books and lectures, good mind and honest as to what he does not know.

I have a couple of scientists in my family, they all like him.

[Steely Tom]

Sheldon Glashow has expressed skepticism concerning string theory, pointing out that it can't be tested in the laboratory.

It's a theoretical utopia that you either believe in or you don't. Like "socialism will work when the right people implement it."

[Brilliant]

“My own point of view is that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God.”

Can’t really argue with that point. It’s interesting though in itself that that should be the case.

[Steely Tom]

I have a couple of scientists in my family, they all like him.

I've a couple of scientists in my family too, and they ignore him.

[Simon Green]

Who is this guy? Why is he so prominent? I've listened to him a time or two, and he seems completely fake to me. Is he a scientist of some sort? What has he ever accomplished that is real?

As per Wikipedia:

As part of the research program in 1975 and 1977 at the department of physics at The City College of The City University of New York, Kaku worked on research on quantum mechanics. He was a Visitor and Member (1973 and 1990) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and New York University. He currently holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York.

Kaku has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals such as Physical Review, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. In 1974, Kaku and Prof. Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University co-authored the first papers describing string theory in a field form.

Kaku is the author of several textbooks on string theory and quantum field theory.

I’d say this certainly qualifies him to be called a “real” scientist… Wouldn’t you agree?

[Secret Agent Man]

He says its clear god exists, a universal intelligence. Then he says you cant prove or disprove god. If its clear because of the rules and harmony a universal intellgence (his way of saying god) exists, then his later equivocation is wrong. He bases his conclusion god exists on evidence of rules and laws and harmony, then says cant prove or,disprove. His own belief is evidence based, so hes proved it.

Hes trying to backtrack.

[Tell It Right]

Secret Agent Man: Thats some little dance he’s doing there. Simon Green: How so? He laid out his position quite clearly.

My Kaku translation: My science tells me God undeniably exists, but my reputation in my science clique says I can't say what I see with my own eyes.

God of Order? Is that the best he's got? I'm not religious enough to be an atheist.