Number 95 : February 1999 |
Science has for centuries been disproving the teachings of religion, from the Earth going reound the Sun, to evolution.
But now science has reached the frontiers of knowledge, physicists are coming around to the idea that there is a God. Why ?
The scientists have discovered two things :-
Firstly, before the big bang that created the universe, the laws of physics did not exist; eg. There was no time, no rule stating infinite density could not exist, and so on. But these laws of physics could only have been created through divine action. (Also, given the huge nuclear power created by destroying the atom, imagine the divine power to create all the atoms in the universe.) Therefore if one considers the spirit world to be a dimension outside the universe, where we are before (and after) life in the universe, then the spirit world is outside time also, and this is why spirit can tell us the future, and why the issue of how a spirit can be created (or die) does not apply without the constraints of time.
Secondly, the miracle of life, in all forms, being created from a mass of atoms, has the same probability of being created as a Jumbo Jet being assembled by chance from a whirlwind passing through a scrap-yard.
Therefore, now that science is looking for answers to questions it cannot answer, it is time for religion to take over the lead again and give scientists the answers so they can try to explain life in scientific terms. Before long they will discover the energy source that is spirit (and God) itself in some far end of an unknown spectrum, in an unknown dimension.
Graham Dare
Graham : I’m not in sympathy with the above contentions, which may be no surprise to you. When you use expressions like "could only have been created through divine action", what evidence have you for this assertion, and what does the introduction of this deus ex machina actually explain. What do you mean by "dimension outside the universe" so that it might act as an explanatory concept ?
The Jumbo Jet analogy is oft-quoted. There’s much that we don’t know about evolution, and in particular about how the first DNA and cells arose, but the correct response to this situation is "don’t know … working on it", not something like "spirit explains it all". The reason is that we know even less about "spirit", even if it exists, than we do about the mechanisms whereby chance events allied to natural selection lead to the complexity about us (if this is the correct story). If "spirit" does explain anything, please spell out the details for us. If "religion", as you conceive of it, can give scientists answers, please go on and provide them. I must say I thought your final sentence was poetic nonsense.
Theo