What the bleep do we know?
Wow I feel very blessed to have gone to see to great movies within the space of a week with two very cool people.
Last night instead of going to church I went to see What the bleep do we know? After watching it I felt like I had had a ton of bricks dropped on my head. It was definately worth the cost of going to see it. To use a word that Mike coined last night What the bleep do we know? is a drama-mentry, ie, this movie interviews multiple people throughout the movie but through it all is a storyline about this woman dealing with the issues that they present.
The movie is about science and spirituality. They interview multiple people with varying degrees of expertise in the subject matter from very knowledgeable to a woman who seemed to be using it to be supporting her own New Age Eastern mysticism (we are all god if we just unlock our potential). The science is all about quantum science and how everything exists in potentia in multiple places at once until it is observed or experienced and then all the possiblities collapse down to one. They go on to say that no where in the physical human body is there anything that is capable of being the Observer, as they put it. These scientists therefore conclude that the Observer is in fact the human soul. This Observer if it truly unlocked its potential then could shape reality as it saw fit.
They also discussed god, the views differed quite radically. The person I was most impressed with throughout the whole movie declared that he believed that god is he just did not know what or who god is. The woman declared that we are all god. It was interesting that the god that they reasoned exists must be so much bigger than all our human conceptions, they had an awe of god that Christians sometimes lose from His intimacy with us. However, they could not believe that such an awesomely powerful god could actually be affected by humans, us being such an insignificant tiny part of the universe, and that we could actually hurt this god. But this is where the Christian message differs hugely from their message because this is the amazing thing about God that even though we are such a small insignificant part of His universe He still loves and cares about us.
I think a lot of Christians would get very offended by this movie with its religio-scientific pretensions. The god this movie rails against is the god of the gaps and the scientists claimed to have filled all of the gaps. Since many Christians use god of the gaps to avoid having to marry science and god this means that this god is written out of existence. However, I aren't convinced that this is completely a bad thing. The God that I believe in is not a God of the gaps but a sovereign God who governs all things. He is not disproved by science as if He were below science or alongside it. Rather He is above science. He is big, wise, and powerful enough to accept any scienctific explanations of how He acts. One question that did get raised in my mind is why we are the observers that determine reality. Why could not the observer be someone who is external to us who keeps my reality the same as your reality. In this case God is the ultimate observer who makes sure that tomorrow follows today or indeed happens at all. This is a God who truly holds the world in the palm of His hand.
But in fact I was thoroughly impressed by this movie. The fact that members of the scientific community are claiming to be able to show that the soul exists is a telling indictment against an atheistic view that science disproves the existence of God. I would therefore recommend it to all Christians who are secure in their faith but are willing to question it and are able to accept answers that aren't necessarily what traditional Christianity teaches. I would also recommend going to see it a second time with atheist/agnostic friends since I see it as a great evangelistic tool, insomuchas it provides a great starting point for a discussion.
Last night instead of going to church I went to see What the bleep do we know? After watching it I felt like I had had a ton of bricks dropped on my head. It was definately worth the cost of going to see it. To use a word that Mike coined last night What the bleep do we know? is a drama-mentry, ie, this movie interviews multiple people throughout the movie but through it all is a storyline about this woman dealing with the issues that they present.
The movie is about science and spirituality. They interview multiple people with varying degrees of expertise in the subject matter from very knowledgeable to a woman who seemed to be using it to be supporting her own New Age Eastern mysticism (we are all god if we just unlock our potential). The science is all about quantum science and how everything exists in potentia in multiple places at once until it is observed or experienced and then all the possiblities collapse down to one. They go on to say that no where in the physical human body is there anything that is capable of being the Observer, as they put it. These scientists therefore conclude that the Observer is in fact the human soul. This Observer if it truly unlocked its potential then could shape reality as it saw fit.
They also discussed god, the views differed quite radically. The person I was most impressed with throughout the whole movie declared that he believed that god is he just did not know what or who god is. The woman declared that we are all god. It was interesting that the god that they reasoned exists must be so much bigger than all our human conceptions, they had an awe of god that Christians sometimes lose from His intimacy with us. However, they could not believe that such an awesomely powerful god could actually be affected by humans, us being such an insignificant tiny part of the universe, and that we could actually hurt this god. But this is where the Christian message differs hugely from their message because this is the amazing thing about God that even though we are such a small insignificant part of His universe He still loves and cares about us.
I think a lot of Christians would get very offended by this movie with its religio-scientific pretensions. The god this movie rails against is the god of the gaps and the scientists claimed to have filled all of the gaps. Since many Christians use god of the gaps to avoid having to marry science and god this means that this god is written out of existence. However, I aren't convinced that this is completely a bad thing. The God that I believe in is not a God of the gaps but a sovereign God who governs all things. He is not disproved by science as if He were below science or alongside it. Rather He is above science. He is big, wise, and powerful enough to accept any scienctific explanations of how He acts. One question that did get raised in my mind is why we are the observers that determine reality. Why could not the observer be someone who is external to us who keeps my reality the same as your reality. In this case God is the ultimate observer who makes sure that tomorrow follows today or indeed happens at all. This is a God who truly holds the world in the palm of His hand.
But in fact I was thoroughly impressed by this movie. The fact that members of the scientific community are claiming to be able to show that the soul exists is a telling indictment against an atheistic view that science disproves the existence of God. I would therefore recommend it to all Christians who are secure in their faith but are willing to question it and are able to accept answers that aren't necessarily what traditional Christianity teaches. I would also recommend going to see it a second time with atheist/agnostic friends since I see it as a great evangelistic tool, insomuchas it provides a great starting point for a discussion.
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The wikipedia article doesn't seem as optimistic as yourself.
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