I just don't see why this explains very much. Whereas his former colleague Stephen Hawking had firmly rejected the God hypothesis by the end of his life, Penrose admits that he isn't necessarily denying that God exists: 'I'm not saying I deny it. Mystery number three is our ability to use our conscious understanding to comprehend mathematics and these very extraordinary selfconsistent but deep ideas, which are very far from my experiences.'ĭuring the programme, the cosmologist engages in a lengthy debate with Craig on whether God could be the unifying answer to his 'three great mysteries'. It's not just a matter of complicated computations there's something much more subtle going on. Mystery number two is how conscious experience can arise when these circumstances seem to be right.

'Mystery number one is the fact that this world of physics is so extraordinarily precisely guided by mathematical equations. He describes 'three great mysteries' in the realms of mathematics, consciousness and the physical world, that science has not yet explained. Penrose who has described himself as an atheist, says he doesn't believe in any religious doctrines but says the nature of reality is more complex than many of his secular colleagues admit.

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