God & Science
Created | Updated Nov 30, 2005
Good news. God is back!
It now seems as if scientists have discovered a higher place or universe where God might be. Fiction writers or for that matter theologians are finding difficulty in keeping up with science these days. With theories of parallel worlds all around us, the idea of God is no longer so improbable.
Of course some scientists would tell you that this is not so. Some would go so far as to exclude Him from any grand plan. They would say that there’s no physical proof of God's existence and in saying it so persistently they’ll make it more likely. Theories into multiple higher dimensions and black holes with tunnels to other worlds are more credible to them. Others have taken up psychology telling us that nothing is real any more; there not being an independent universe. If we were not here it wouldn’t apparently exist; it’s only there when we look.
Physics is fast coming the sphere of new prophets, and science is again going back to philosophy. It’s grown up; just as a little boy who was not confident wouldn’t want to be a sissy and listen to his mother. It had to prove itself as a sign of maturity by denying God in relative safety, since God wouldn’t need to throw thunderbolts to prove himself.
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Is there really a God then?
Some, believe because they’re afraid. Others believe because they see the order and purpose of nature. A third group believes because science now makes Him possible. We are now faced with theories that are more difficult to digest than the belief in a supernatural force. It wasn’t long ago when Einstein made his famous remark that God didn’t play dice and that it was not all a matter of chance.
The arguments between evolutionists and creationists have raged for a long time. Someone must have had the original seed. The main issue is not in what form we started off but whether there was a Prime Mover.
Scientists have decided that photons and electrons can be both particles and waves, depending on the argument in hand. So why not God being a force everywhere and taking on the form that suits the occassion? If an electron can change form as it approaches two holes to go and interfere with itself the event could be taken as a sort of miracle. Why not admit that we don’t understand what really goes on when we set up models to explain things? Why not a model for God? In the old days what was not understood was a miracle and it looks as if we still have a few left.
We seem to be living in a big balloon. It’s being blown up more and more as we advance, with a possibility of it going bust releasing us from the three dimensional spacial straight-jacket. Maybe God’s on the other side.
We often ask how can there be a God with so much suffering and injustice in the world and churches responsible for so many wars, but we cannot blame God for human failings. As for the natural injustices we simply do not know, but theories abound just as they do in science.
We know that there are invisible forces all around us, and although we can not see them we feel their presence.
