How Science Could Prove the Existence of God | Michio Kaku | Google Zeitgeist
Michio Kaku: There is a website that quoted me incorrectly. That’s one of the drawbacks
of being in a public sphere: sometimes you get quoted incorrectly. And the reference I saw said
that I said that you can prove the existence of God. Science is based on what is testable,
reproducible, and falsifiable. That’s called science. Be that as it may, there are certain things that
are not testable, not reproducible, and not falsifiable. Which would incorporate the presence of
God? I certainly believe in a creator. The universe, planets, life itself, intelligence doesn't just
magically appear out of nothing. We have to be humble and admit there has to be master creator.
I encourage science to keep exploring the universe because curiosity was also a gift given to us.
Same thing with the presence of God. I don’t think there’s any one test simply can make to
demonstrate or discredit the presence of God. Hence, it’s not a falsifiable articulation. You
cannot make an test that discredits the presence of God. Hence, it’s a non-falsifiable explanation.
Our universe is rich; it is excellent, exquisite. And you'll be able summarize most of the laws of
material science on one sheet of paper. In truth, what I do for a living is to undertake to induce
that sheet of paper and summarize it into an condition one inch long. That’s called the bound
together field hypothesis. Science and scientist already recognize that god is real. Everything that
begins to exist has a cause. Something cannot come a being out of nothing, but if something is
eternal and timeless then it doesn’t fall under that first premises and it does not need a cause. The
concept of god is the concept of an eternal self existent necessary being and there for the answer
is simply that god is uncaused he is self existent. "Science is based on what is testable,
reproducible, and falsifiable," Kaku says. "That’s called 'science.' However, there are certain
things that are not testable, not reproducible, and not falsifiable. And that would include the
existence of God." He's noted that discerning whether you live in a Matrix-style construct or not
would be another such 'non-falsifiable' problem. So when Kaku asserts that the goal of string
field theory is to “read the mind of God,” it’s important to remember he’s talking about
Einstein’s God of Order. To “read the mind of God” would be to find that (one-inch) equation
that explains everything in the cosmos. Bearing in mind the continual game of leapfrog going on
between math and physics, and that the latest leap is physics' string theory, which requires a new
type of math, Kaku mischievously suggests that the ultimate solution to the schism between
physicists and mathematicians could be that God is a mathematician. And, he says, the mind of
God — the explanation of Order — may turn out to be string field theory’s “cosmic music,” the
resonating of strings through 11-dimensional hyperspace.
