Monday, May 2, 2016
494 - Small World
Spirituality Column No. 494
May 3, 2016
Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary
“Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences, undergirding astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology and – absent some paradigm-shattering revelation – human thought and action.” – Wall Street Journal, April 26, Page C5, “Hitching a Ride on a Light Beam.”
Thus opened a recent newspaper review of two new, apparently authoritative and well-written books surveying the current state of physics and scientific discovery.
I’m a science geek of sorts and found the piece fascinating; I love learning how stuff works. The “hellfire” of the Big Bang is mentioned. The books are “praiseworthy” in the words of the reviewer, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld, a physics professor at UMass Dartmouth. What the review fails to mention, I noticed, is what Hirshfeld, the authors and the global scientific community in general are all, ultimately, trying to discover.
All evidence points to the reality that they – in toto – don’t know.
But most assuredly, I do. What science is trying to find is God, or maybe more properly Christ Jesus: the Word of God, the creator of all things, the author of all wisdom, eternal holder of God’s authority over all things. Science doesn’t like to say “God,” and refuses, usually with intellectual disdain and embarrassed giggles, to recognize the physical truth of Christ Jesus.
“Hellfire” and “praiseworthy”? Yes. “Jesus”? Not on your life.
Fact is, there exists no more important human pursuit than discovering God. Call it humanity’s ultimate purpose. There is the old joke about the scientists who climb the mountain of knowledge, only to discover at its peak a gathering of theologians already there trying to discover God. The theologians laugh at the scientists.
Then there is the Jewish joke where the rabbi challenges God to a game of hide-and-seek. God strategizes, “I’ll hide in the human heart; no one will ever think to look for me there.”
God, you see, already inhabits our minds and hearts. Most of the science world throws a blanket over God because fragile, fallen human egos generally eschew acceding to one so obviously grander, smarter and morally superior to “moi.”
If physics, science, academia, culture, whomever – the world – truly seeks a paradigm-shattering revelation regarding human thought and action, my suggestion is to study up on Jesus Christ; God in the flesh. He isn’t overcome or diminished by science; He invented science. Christ is the paradigm that doesn’t shatter or shift.
“Physics” markets itself as big and all-encompassing yet occupies a subordinate, incomplete and limited material box. God’s realm includes all matter and movement, plus love, purpose, salvation and glory … without limits.
Science would be more fun, interesting and bigger if it knew – and would admit – what it is looking for.
Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) is saying it’s a small world without God.
May 3, 2016
Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary
Small World
By Bob Walters“Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences, undergirding astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology and – absent some paradigm-shattering revelation – human thought and action.” – Wall Street Journal, April 26, Page C5, “Hitching a Ride on a Light Beam.”
Thus opened a recent newspaper review of two new, apparently authoritative and well-written books surveying the current state of physics and scientific discovery.
I’m a science geek of sorts and found the piece fascinating; I love learning how stuff works. The “hellfire” of the Big Bang is mentioned. The books are “praiseworthy” in the words of the reviewer, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld, a physics professor at UMass Dartmouth. What the review fails to mention, I noticed, is what Hirshfeld, the authors and the global scientific community in general are all, ultimately, trying to discover.
All evidence points to the reality that they – in toto – don’t know.
But most assuredly, I do. What science is trying to find is God, or maybe more properly Christ Jesus: the Word of God, the creator of all things, the author of all wisdom, eternal holder of God’s authority over all things. Science doesn’t like to say “God,” and refuses, usually with intellectual disdain and embarrassed giggles, to recognize the physical truth of Christ Jesus.
“Hellfire” and “praiseworthy”? Yes. “Jesus”? Not on your life.
Fact is, there exists no more important human pursuit than discovering God. Call it humanity’s ultimate purpose. There is the old joke about the scientists who climb the mountain of knowledge, only to discover at its peak a gathering of theologians already there trying to discover God. The theologians laugh at the scientists.
Then there is the Jewish joke where the rabbi challenges God to a game of hide-and-seek. God strategizes, “I’ll hide in the human heart; no one will ever think to look for me there.”
God, you see, already inhabits our minds and hearts. Most of the science world throws a blanket over God because fragile, fallen human egos generally eschew acceding to one so obviously grander, smarter and morally superior to “moi.”
If physics, science, academia, culture, whomever – the world – truly seeks a paradigm-shattering revelation regarding human thought and action, my suggestion is to study up on Jesus Christ; God in the flesh. He isn’t overcome or diminished by science; He invented science. Christ is the paradigm that doesn’t shatter or shift.
“Physics” markets itself as big and all-encompassing yet occupies a subordinate, incomplete and limited material box. God’s realm includes all matter and movement, plus love, purpose, salvation and glory … without limits.
Science would be more fun, interesting and bigger if it knew – and would admit – what it is looking for.
Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) is saying it’s a small world without God.
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