#Woodfel cant create world software#

Q: What are some aspects of science that people donвЂ™t typically have a good understanding of that provides enlightenment rather than diminishes faith?ДЄ: ItвЂ™s super relevant that in the time of COVID-19, science has taken somewhat of a beating. With quantum mechanics, it is not contrary, it is another example of God and the role of Jesus Christ. We chose and pre-determined that we wanted to have a choice - to have uncertainty. In the pre-existence, we fought for the ability to choose instead of being mandated to having no choice. However, I turn it around and say there are many examples of where the fundamental principle is allowing people to have choice. We canвЂ™t know exactly where the electron is, and many students will say that canвЂ™t be compatible with God because God knows all things. In my discipline of quantum mechanics, some of the fundamental principles is that there is uncertainty. Therefore, evolution in my mind is not incompatible at all. They just become a way around trying to understand the truth of God and His nature.

If weвЂ™re in the search of how He did things, then models donвЂ™t become incompatible.

Our approach in science is to discover how He did things. The problem occurs when well-meaning people look at God and think they know how He did everything. It isnвЂ™t inconsistent with God because it is only a mechanism by which God can do His creation and create the diversity of the world that we see. However, I think youвЂ™ll find that there isnвЂ™t a single professor in biology or the BYU Life Sciences department that has a problem with evolution, because it is a model that works. IвЂ™m not an expert - IвЂ™m not an evolutionary biologist. Q: What are some theories that are taught in a typical scientific curriculum that are seen conventionally as incompatible with religion?ДЄ: The classic one is evolution. Why is it consistent, how does it fit? Sometimes, that understanding can take decades to come to grips with. My approach is that instead of looking for reasons of why not, I look for reasons why. If a model is useful and it helps us predict or understand, it doesnвЂ™t have to be eternally fundamentally true but it is still considered useful. Just because a model doesnвЂ™t work right does not mean that it still isnвЂ™t useful. All these processes - including looking for truth, sit under the religion and are not opposed to it. If the models work, we keep it, but when it doesnвЂ™t work, we then make a better model that helps us understand it even better. In the science field, we are trained to take theories, understand them and understand models as a matter of that discipline. But you can take the viewpoint that the Church and religion in general, is after the truth in trying to understand the nature of God and how he interacts with us and how he is involved in our lives. When you take a perspective that thereвЂ™s religion and then you put a barrier between religion and academics, that sets up conflict. At the time, he was an apostle and had the insight that all academic fields of study are just subsets of theology of the gospel. Pratt wrote a book titled the вЂњKey to the Science of TheologyвЂќ in 1850. Q: How is science compatible with religion?ДЄ: ItвЂ™s surprising how much people misconstrue what science is about. He would explain how rockets worked and I became interested in low temperature physics.

#Woodfel cant create world software#

He was a chief software engineer for Apollo, so we were always interested in the space industry. My father was always involved in NASA and military projects. It sounded really interesting and so I got hooked to chemistry. IвЂ™m the youngest child in my family and my older brother was studying chemistry in high school and he was telling me about chemistry. This understanding wasnвЂ™t limited to just computers. I had a similar mindset of looking at the world and trying to understand it. He fixed all of our cars, appliances and other things. My father was a pioneer in computers and he would tear things apart and put it back together. Q: What made you interested in studying and pursuing a lifelong career with chemistry?ДЄ: I grew up in a home where we wanted to understand how everything worked. He explained how faith and science can go hand-in-hand. Woodfield has been a chemistry professor at BYU for over 25 years.