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 Thank you for your interest in the theological work of my father, Neil Kazen, who died shortly before July 27, 2019. I have done my best to assemble his work following his death and present it in an accessible way. I do not necessarily agree with all of my father's remarks on this website, but I merely seek to make Neil's work available to those who are interested in it. 

As I am neither a theologian nor a physicist, I am not worthy of providing an authoritative summary of Neil Kazen's work, but here is my best shot:

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• As a young man, Neil was an atheist who believe the ultimate truth could be discovered scientifically. Modern physics was effectively his religion. 
• That changed in the Spring of 1984 when he had become suicidal and had a near death experience. He described seeing a beautiful infinite white light from which he learned that there is a higher power. Seeing this light persuaded him to keep living. However, all earthly matters, including modern physics, seemed irrelevant to him at that point.
• He then turned his attention to the Church and to Christian spirituality. Although his vision of light was not specifically a Christian experience, he felt most conformable with Orthodox Christianity.
• He continued to keep in touch with some of his friends and acquaintances from his prior atheist life. He became annoyed that they would attempt to justify atheism through science.
• Although Neil was no longer interested in trying to solve the mysteries of the universe the science, he felt that he had a responsibility to use his scientific training to demonstrate that there was no contradiction between science and Christian theology (or the theology of any major religion for that matter).
• Neil's theological ideas could be broadly summarized as follows:
  • Science, by its own admission, is incapable of ever completely explaining everything. Uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of nature that will always remain regardless of how sophisticated our measuring instruments become, as exemplified by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle;
  • Just as science cannot prove the validity of faith in The Holy Trinity, so science cannot prove the validity of atheism. That is, the affirmative disbelief in a higher power is ​much a choice as is the belief in Christianity; 
  • As belief and disbelief are both a matter of choice rather than objective logic, science is not an impediment to faith in The Holy Trinity;
  • While it is not constructive to speak of matters of belief or disbelief as being correct or incorrect as a logical exercise, it is constructive to look at what supports life and what does not;
  • The most livable societies in human history have been Christian; conversely, the only atheist societies in our history have failed (e.g. Communist Soviet Union);
  • Nature gives us clues as to what beliefs are aligned with life through apparent coincidences and similarities. One example is the similarity between The Holy Trinity and the Three Quark Model of hadrons. Another example is the similarity between the dual nature of Christ and the possibility of two kinds of light: one kind of light being relative to a frame of reference below c, the other kind of light being relative to a frame of reference above c ab initio (tachyons);
  • Finally, it was Neil's hope that, by looking for such similarities between natural phenomenon and theological principles that one could accurately predict something in nature which would then be corroborated by experiment. We were discussing potential experiments in his last few years. Unfortunately, he died before any of them could be carried out.

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I hope that the links below could be useful to you in some way.

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Thank you,

Samuel Kazen

Neil Kazen's Personal Light Experience

Neil Kazen's Presentation: Hole in the Wall

Neil Kazen's Primary Essays

Miscellaneous Writings on Theology by Neil Kazen

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