I'm no physicist by any stock of the imagination, so I'll be the first to admit I can't begin to understand the technicalities of what I'm about to discuss, but even at surface level this "junk" is mind blowing. So please feel free to clarify my understanding.
http://www.cebaf.gov/news/internet/1997/spooky.html
http://www.braungardt.com/Physics/Quantum%20Nonlocality.htm
Since I'm not a scientist (duh), my interest is metaphysical: which is the connection that fascinates me.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/unification-theory
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=434
Now string theory and m-theory are still being defined, and so it's not totally valid to postulate connections between those speculative ideas (eg., a ten-dimensional reality) with metaphysics as yet, I would imagine... but the claims of Quantum physics have been repeatedly produced by experiment, therefore a connection to reality has already been demonstrated. Which, as the article points out, means that what we perceive as matter is in fact infinitesimal charges of electric energy and empty space, not just subatomic particles. Yes, this is demonstrable science.
And then the whole issue of Quantum nonlocality. I'm not even going to go into how mind-blowing that is, because its possibility apparently irritated even Einstein, who despised Quantum physics because of it messing with the "rules", enough said. This ties in with teleportation. Yes, this too is demonstrated science.
Makes you wonder. As of today, broadly speaking, science is mostly an atheistic or agnostic curiosity... and the presuppositions are definitely atheistic (you could say anti-theistic implicitly as a suppression of the glory of God). But I wonder, when does Romans 1 emphatically kick in? While general revelation (the universe) does not provide answers that lead to salvation, we know that creation points to a creator. In that sense, I think biblically, speaking for humanity as a group, humanity's pursuit of discovery will lead man to God (whatever the outcome). Am I mistaken to ask - Is that not guaranteed? Will scientists start bridging the (technically non-existent) gap between the "physical" and metaphysical?
Maybe we see some of this already today. For instance: What, technically, is considered a miracle? It's the setting aside of the physical laws of the universe to accomplish something. If you read the dude's section (in the answersingenesis link) on "Zero-point energy field" the very underlying elemental foundations of all matter contradict the classical laws of physics, so that the unexpected is expected. For example, it is postulated that the expansion of the universe means that zero point energy is constantly being created out of nothing (the universe does not become diluted). There's a sense that (and this is my own take) realistically, the very underlying principle of all existence is miraculous (if defined as the setting aside of known laws).
And with these discoveries, questions arise of existence and the impact of the individual on reality, and the connection between the metaphysical and the natural. It seems the deeper science goes, it moves not away from those questions and their answers, but right into the maelstrom of the fundamental questions of spirituality.
As a rank amateur, I'm flabbergasted.
People, Psalm 8.
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Who is sufficient for these things?
I just finished a conversation with one of my closest friends. Who just got saved. Who's resisted during decades of prayer and conversation. Who knew all but rejected it just the same. Now he testifies that God forgave him, changed him, saved him.
And on that basis, as I told him, I am amazed - you just cannot force the hand of God. It is instances like these that reinforce his sovereignty over the human heart, that he will call when he wills. And when he does, the hardest heart turns to flesh and sings his praise.
And this is why we preach, because faith comes from God. And we trust, because there is never one without hope. And we love Christ, because salvation is found nowhere else.
I have been struck again with the lack of human wisdom to save a man - even if that wisdom is based on Truth. Man cannot convince anyone to be saved, even if there is great love in that relationship. We are foolish, powerless on our own - But we preach Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. And he saves to the uttermost, because his salvation is not about words, but actual cleansing and heart regeneration.
And on that basis, as I told him, I am amazed - you just cannot force the hand of God. It is instances like these that reinforce his sovereignty over the human heart, that he will call when he wills. And when he does, the hardest heart turns to flesh and sings his praise.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:16,17
And this is why we preach, because faith comes from God. And we trust, because there is never one without hope. And we love Christ, because salvation is found nowhere else.
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:17-25
I have been struck again with the lack of human wisdom to save a man - even if that wisdom is based on Truth. Man cannot convince anyone to be saved, even if there is great love in that relationship. We are foolish, powerless on our own - But we preach Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. And he saves to the uttermost, because his salvation is not about words, but actual cleansing and heart regeneration.
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