Rick DeLano’s movie, The End of Quantum Reality makes a strong case against scientific materialism, but then there’s the Catholic thing.

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That’s South Park talking about what it’s like to go back to Catholic Church today. It has a connection with today’s interview with Rick DeLano, who has a really outstanding new science movie out called The End of Quantum Reality, about the work of Dr. Wolfgang Smith. Well, the connection is that even though it’s a great science film, with beautiful cinematography, I can’t stop laughing about the Catholic thing. 

Alex Tsakiris: [00:01:01] You did a great job of educating us on something that we always know, and that is how solid quantum physics is, because one of the tricks that’s been done here to get away from the philosophical implications of quantum physics, is to make it sound woo-woo or fluffy.

You just don’t get it, Rick. I mean, you don’t understand why non-Christians like me, are just stunned how any really bright, intelligent person that you are, can buy into such a wacky cosmology. 

Rick DeLano: [00:01:40] There is no remote point of congruence between the straw man on your screen and the actual content of Christian revelation. Any Christian knows that instantaneously. 

 

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Welcome to Skeptiko where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics. I’m your host, Alex Tsakiris, and today we welcome Rick DeLano to Skeptiko. 

Rick is a guy who has a terrific new movie out called The End of Quantum Reality. It’s a movie that explores the work of physicist, Dr. Wolfgang Smith, and it builds a very strong scientific base case against the biological robot, meaningless universe meme that we talk about so much on this show. Here’s a clip from the trailer of the movie.

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Alex Tsakiris: [00:03:24] Okay, that might be a place where we could pause. Rick, welcome to Skeptiko, thanks so much for joining me.  

Rick DeLano: [00:03:33] Thank you so much for having me on Alex. 

Alex Tsakiris: [00:03:36] Well, I have to say, you are one talented guy. I was watching this movie, which for anyone who saw it, the clip I was just playing is absolutely visually fantastic, beautifully well done, graphics, animations, cinematography. I’m watching it and I’m thinking, where did they get this guy to narrate this film? I’m serious. I’m serious. That was my first thought. And then I look, you were the writer, director, narrator. I mean it’s your baby. So I was dying to know a little bit about your background and how you came to do this.

Rick DeLano: [00:04:11] Well, it’s really interesting.  I am the writer and the narrator and the producer. My dear associate Katie Thomas is the director. And I sort of fell into this business, not by choice or by design, but a dear friend of mine had decided to make a film about the Copernican principle back in about 2010, and while I do have extensive experience in the music business, my friend thought that since I was a Hollywood producer that  meant I would know something about movies. No,