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Film Review – Oppenheimer

• Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
• Jul 13, 2023

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Benny Safdie as Edward Teller, left, and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from “Oppenheimer.”Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

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OPPENHEIMER and EINSTEIN

On Science and Culture by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Encounter (Magazine) October 1962 issue, was the best article that he ever wrote and it touched on a lot of critical issues including the one that Francis Schaeffer discusses in this blog post!

Beginning of Chapter 4 of POLLUTION AND THE DEATH OF MAN:

The beginning of the Christian view of nature is the concept of creation: that God was there before the beginning of the space-time continuum and God created everything out of nothing. From this, we must understand that creation is not an extension of the essence of God. Created things have an objective existence in themselves. They are really there. 

Whitehead, Oppenheimer, and others have pointed out that modern science was born out of a surrounding consensus of historic Christianity. Why? Because, as Whitehead has emphasized, Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there, and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason. Whitehead was absolutely right about this. He was not a Christian, but he understood that there would never have been modern science without the biblical view of Christianity. 

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Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, 1947: Flickr, James Vaughn

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Francis Schaeffer above

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 6 and 9, 1945

From left to right: Robertson, Wigner, Weyl, Gödel, Rabi, Einstein, Ladenburg, Oppenheimer, and Clemence

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