Is our fate determined?

teaches us also that our incapability to make predictions beyond the static legalities and also individual cases is not based in the deficiency of our knowledge (something that could be remedied in the future): Real ‘freedom’ 13 applies to events happening with individual atoms and this represents something entirely new in regards to the old concepts of the natural sciences. This result from modern physics bring about a completely changed relationship between religion and science. We will completely desist from anticipating further philosophical explanation here. May it suffice to have shown that the problem situation possibly developed from an anti-religious exploitation by the sciences – and for which Kant tried to give an astute solution, one however restricted by certain boundaries materialism imposes – that simply no longer exist after the concept of the absolute inevitability of natural events has been refuted through physical experiments. It may seem that the hope for a new harmonisation between religion and science proclaimed here might be too lightly substantiated if the discovered ‘freedom’ only applies to atoms and electrons, whilst for the larger bodies, existing of lots of atoms, the old concept of causality remains in force. But ‘quantum biology’ has started to appear next to ‘quantum physics’ over the last few years and it has deduced its insight from biological experiments that the reaction of living organisms largely depends on the processes of extreme subtlety – the kind of subtlety that one is virtually dealing with individual reactions of individual molecules: This dependency of life’s events on ‘controlling’ processes that are no longer subjected to the causality of a rough physical structure, basically deprive unbroken mechanical causality because of biological appearances. Whatever one’s thoughts might be in regards to the final appraisal - something associated new scientific insights will find one day – nobody will be able to get rid of the fact that the old, major problems of a centuries long battle between the natural sciences and religion will be completely unrolled through these new insights.” 14 2.6 Precognition and predestination At the end of this treatise we should also deal with parapsychological views of freedom of will and predestination . Even though physics does not accept an absolute predestination based on today’s insights and opinions, the fact that precognition is known in parapsychology could lead to the assumption that actually all events are exactly predestined. Predictions that stretch over decades or even centuries do indeed exist within parapsychology and they finally eventuate in all their predicted details. But do all of them really eventuate in all their details? By closely scrutinising the predictions of serious previewers one ascertains that a lot does not eventuate or not accurately eventuate. Dr. Schmeϊng writes in his book “Das Zweite Gesicht in Niederdeutschland” 15 according to accounts of corresponding examples: “An inevitable fulfilment, down to individual, radical details as it is often emphasised in accounts of predictions, does not necessarily happen. Not only details could fail to eventuate, but whole previews could also remain unfulfilled.” One can naturally foster the assumption that mistakes in the transmission of the preview of these false forecasts crept in during the reception by the predictor. But this cannot be verified a priory and naturally also not the opposite. 13 Freedom in regards to the unforeseen, footnote by the author. 14 P. Jordan , Die Physik und das Geheimnis des organischen Lebens, Verlag F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1947, P. 155. 15 K. Schmeϊng, Das Zweite Gesicht in Niederdeutschland, Verlag J. A. Barth Leipzig 1938, P. 154