RE: 11-Year-Old College Grad Wants to Pursue Astrophysics to Prove God’s Existence
July 23, 2018 at 8:05 am
(July 23, 2018 at 8:00 am)polymath257 Wrote: An AA degree? That's a 2 year degree that is a prep degree for entering a *real* university bachelors degree program. Then he will have grad school for a Master's and then the work for a PhD.
Give the kid some time. He's bright, but not exactly an expert on anything. That goes double for astrophysics. Let's see how he deals with General Relativity before we take any pronouncements on physics seriously. I suspect he will hit a wall when he is actually required to think through some things.
I went to university at 15. Admittedly, that is 4 years older than this guy, but I don't see it as completely unreasonable. But he has yet to hit puberty, which has few effects on our thinking.....
I'll bet his immersed theism will crack by the time he is 18.
I wouldn't count on it. If science cured religious belief there would be nobody trying to mix the two.