Many of us these days sense there is something real beyond the scope of naturalistic
science. But what? Must mental and religious lives always remain a mystery and
never become part of scientific knowledge? Can theism ever be connected with
science? Professor Ian Thompson presents a series of four talks to explain a
new rational approach to combining science and theism. He presents theism as
a scientific theory, explaining its basic postulates, consequences and predictions
as simply as possible and without paradox. Dr Thompson shows how a following
of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the
psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the
universe. We will see if those predictions agree with the world as we observe
it, both externally in nature and internally in our minds. In fact, they mesh
surprisingly well with the structure of reality already revealed by modern quantum
field theory and by theories of developmental stages in human minds. The
result is a promising new rational theory encompassing theology, psychology
and physics.
Dr Ian J. Thompson is currently employed as a Nuclear Physicist at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, USA. He is Visiting Professor at the University of
Surrey, England, where until 2006 he was Professor of Physics.
