The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions for Scientists

Abstract. I present an outline of the Omega Point theory, which is a model for an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, evolving, personal God who is both transcendent to spacetime and immanent in it, and who exists necessarily. The model is a falsifiable physical theory, deriving its key concepts no...

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Main Author: Tipler, Frank J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 1989
In: Zygon
Year: 1989, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-253
Further subjects:B resurrection of the flesh
B personal God
B grace and the beatific vision
B physical cosmology
B Eschatology
B computer models of the mind and reality
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Summary:Abstract. I present an outline of the Omega Point theory, which is a model for an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, evolving, personal God who is both transcendent to spacetime and immanent in it, and who exists necessarily. The model is a falsifiable physical theory, deriving its key concepts not from any religious tradition but from modern physical cosmology and computer science; from scientific materialism rather than revelation. Four testable predictions of the model are given. The theory assumes that thinking is a purely physical process of the brain, and that personality dies with the brain. Nevertheless, I show that the Omega Point theory suggests a future universal resurrection of the dead very similar to the one predicted in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition. The notions of “grace” and the “beatific vision” appear naturally in the model.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01112.x