Quantum Theology2

QUANTUM THEOLOGY : M. M. NINAN
"Modern Cosmology: God and the Resurrection of the Dead"
by
Professor Wolfhart Pannenberg, D.D., D.D., D.D.
Institute for Fundamental Theology
University of Munich
(from Lecture given at Innsbruck Conference on Frank Tipler's
book The Physics of Immortality, June 1997)
“Tipler's third presupposition is that the energy available in the
universe is unlimited. Therefore, our universe will not end in a
state of maximal entropy, but possibly in a state of eternal life,
which means maximal information processing. According to
Tipler life is essentially accumulation of information. On its path
towards the Omega point life has to pervade and finally dominate
the entire material universe. The Omega point itself, however,
will be a place of maximal accumulation of information, and
therefore it will be immanent as well as transcendent with
relation to each point in spacetime. Therefore, the Omega point
will have the properties of personality, omnipresence,
omniscience, omnipotence and eternity.
These properties of the Omega point provide in final future of the
universe with the capacity of creating the whole universe. At this
point of the argument, the time perspective of the description of
the universe given so far by Tipler himself gets reverted: God in
his capacity as final future of the universe is really its creator,
who draws his creatures into communion with himself by way of
the history of the universe. While we act from our present into
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