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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

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. . . there’s enough in the way the physical universe is constructed to
indicate the presence of something called soul. Where I begin look-
ing for this soul is in the nature of quantum mechanics, or quantum
physics, which says that there may be spiritual underpinnings to the
physical world. 7
—Fred Alan Wolf, the well-known particle
physicist at University of California
According to Isaac Newton, light was a
flow of a substance known as “corpuscles.” The
basis of the traditional Newtonian physics—
which was accepted until the discovery of
quantum physics—was that light consisted en- Sir Isaac Newton
tirely of a collection of particles. However,
James Clerk Maxwell, a 19th-century physicist, suggested that light
demonstrated wave action. Quantum theory reconciled this great-
est debate in physics.
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