Can Science Resurrect God? New Scenario Says 'Yes'





Now imagine what will be possible in 100 billion years.

While in medical school (working with heart-transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard), I remember lifting the heart out of the chest of a dead man and putting it into another person to give him life. But all this is minor compared to everything we might ultimately experience. Science suggests it's far beyond anything we have ever projected to any God. It's only a short jump from quantum theory to the communion between the spiritual and extended worlds. One mainstream position states that there are an infinite number of universes, the 'multiverse'. A new scientific theory - Biocentrism - suggests that time and space are not the hard objects we think, and that we will personally experience the totality of existence in the multiverse.

Science has only been around for a few hundred years (and quantum physics less than 100 years). At some point - perhaps in a thousand years, or maybe a million years of scientific evolution − we will completely master our understanding of spatio-temporal reality. We will be able to recreate information systems to generate any consciousness-based physical reality. In fact, according to Biocentrism, space and time have no absolute existence independent of these relationships.


As far-fetched as some of these projections seem, consider that even today - in our scientific infancy - we can clone organisms from a single cell or even a hair follicle. It doesn't take much extrapolation to realize that at some point we will possess the knowledge to take a cell from, say, my friend Vicki's mother, who was crippled from polio and died young, and resurrect her without the polio. And although I'm against human reproductive cloning, the science almost exists already - a few years ago we used cloning to resurrect a Banteng -an endangered ox-like animal - that had died over a quarter-of-a-century earlier from a broken back. It was surreal watching an Iowa cow give birth to an exotic creature that lives in the bamboo jungles of Southeast Asia (it's now living happily with a herd of Bantengs at the San Diego Zoo).


When I picked Vicki up, I knew her mom would have been thrilled to know that we were going to our 35th high school reunion together. If she had still been alive, she would have probably been watching wrestling, and told us some funny story to make us laugh before sending us on our way. How proud she would have been for both of us today (Vicki is now a successful lawyer, and I'm a doctor). It's sad she never lived to see that. But in truth, she did see it somewhere in the multiverse. And it doesn't matter how small the probability is, since all these histories are connected outside of time. What matters is that somewhere Vicki's mom knows - whether you want to call it 'heaven' or not; no one has a monopoly on what heaven means and how it's experienced. As hard as it is to fathom, somewhere outside of our limited linear thinking, Vicki and I will indeed get to visit her mom.

As we left for our reunion that night, somewhere Vicki's mom leaned back on the sofa and watched the rest of the wrestling match with a smile on her face.

Robert Lanza, MD is author of over two dozen scientific books, including "Biocentrism," a new book that lays out his theory of everything.