To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.