Peirce and Anaximander

[Otto]

> Otto wrote:
>
> > Or is it that he just could not accept what he had found out because it
> > proved to be contrary to his religious beliefs?
>
> He did not seem to have any problems with his own theories. But the theory
of
> relativity may be seen as only an extension of Newtonian physics, whereas
> quantum mechanics  undermine the whole idea of a clockwork universe.
Someone
> please correct me if I'm wrong. How all this is related to religious
belief I
> cannot say.
>
> Thomas
>

The "clockwork universe" is an idea on which Puritanism is based upon. If
you do this you will get that. In a "clockwork universe" God has planned
anything in advance so the whole history develops like the mechanics inside
a clock, unchangeable, inevitably.

"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God
as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals
(...)" (V., 326).

We are God's pocket watch. In this kind of universe the free will has no
place. In the quantum universe where particles seem to be able to make
decisions God is obsolete.

Otto