Good rundown on Frank Tipler HERE] in a 2008 review of his work by Martin Gardner.
Upshot: crackpot.
The Physics of Christianity by Frank Tipler, a mathematical physicist at Tulane University, is a sequel to The Physics of Immortality, a bestseller in Germany before it was published here in 1994 by Doubleday. In that book, Tipler argued that anyone who understands modern physics will be compelled to believe that at a far-off future date, which Tipler calls the Omega Point (borrowing the term from the Jesuit paleontologist Tielhard de Chardin), God will resurrect every person who lived, as well as every person who could have lived! Our brains will be preserved as computer simulations and given new spiritual bodies to live happily forever in the paradise described in the New Testament.
In his new book, published in 2007 by Doubleday, Tipler goes far beyond his previous one. ...
I got another one:
Delusional :sick:
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The real mystery for me is how people can find comfort in such contrived nonsense.