Quantum mechanics and divine action

Plantinga finds that the indeterminism of quantum mechanics offers less of a problem for divine action than classical science. “…special divine action…is by no means incompatible with quantum mechanics…because…quantum mechanics doesn’t determine a specific outcome for a given set of initial conditions, but instead merely assigns probabilities to the possible outcomes.” Special divine action is not restrained. It is free to select via a nonmaterial energy (wave functions interacting via quantum tunneling in the case of synaptic transmission) certain outcomes according to what has been termed “small probabilities” by William A. Dembski, giving definition to specificity [which is meaning for the information we receive as recipients from the Mind of God].

Stan Lennard