Relational Change
I decided to apply the rules of
textual interpretation to the
conflicts between science and the
Bible. I found that the Bible predicted the primary assumption of the
last days. In the last days, mockers say that material substance (all
things) do not change their being. This is the very
assumption that controlled my thinking. I
found two biblical
principles that were universal in scope. One of these principles is
that everything is phthora, fundamentally changing. This principle
contradicts the dogma of scientific reasoning, that the properties of
matter are NOT emergent. (A dogma
is an
authoritative and inflexible principle that is accepted without
question).
Does matter change itself? What is matter? How did
it come to be?
In the beginning what God made was “tohuw bohuw” (Genesis 1:2)
formless,
unreal, empty and void. Darkness engulfed the primordial abyss
(tehom). God moved across the face of the transitory thing (mayim) and
commanded light to be. It was then that matter was actualized by light
and received its form. We would expect from the first verses in
the Bible that matter is a dynamic relation with light, since its form
was actualized when God created light.
Indeed we find that the form of all modern matter is related to
light. When an atom
emits or absorbs light, it changes the space it takes up as the
"electrons" change the positions they dither at. Matter is not something
solid nor is its shape independent. It
involves a
relationship with light. Today
we use the dithering motions in atoms to measure time. Yet no atom in
distant galaxies pulses at the same rate as local atoms.
No distant galaxy shines with the light of perpetual motion
atoms. Yet every scientist assumes that atoms are perpetual
motion machines since their system of measuring depends on this
idea.
How can matter change?
Romans 8:19 - 22 states that the phthora, (fundamental change) is:
•
An orderly universal process - not a random chaotic thing.
•
A together process, implying relational change.
Atoms are a relationship with light. If that relationship
changes as a relation, we could not measure such changes locally.
Why not? Our system of measurement was contrived with the idea
that matter is not changing itself. Today we define a
second as 9,192,631,770 microwave pulses from cesium
133 atoms. If atoms were changing relationally, we would still
count this number of pulses as a second, yet the durations would be
changing in all atoms. If all atoms are changing relationally,
the space matter takes up, its light frequencies, its inertial and
electromagnetic properties would change in unison. We could not
detect such changes with our operational ways of measuring time.
If
matter continuously changes as a relationship,
even the instruments and units of measurement be
affected. We would still measure constants and manipulate them
with mathematics, because the change is orderly, relational
change. Science
and
mathematics can only deal with
differential change: changes that involve a difference. If both kinds
of change coexist,
only the differential part can be measured or analyzed with mathematics.
The
reader may find this incredulous. I am not suggesting
you believe
something invisible. Every atom in the distant
universe is observed to
accelerate its clock rate the closer it is to the
present. Every atom
in the distant universe visibly
beats a different tempo than local atoms. In general,
the farther away it is, the slower its observed clock rate.
If matter is changing relationally, then the length of
measuring sticks, the internal dithering in atoms,
atomic dimensions, electromagnetic properties and inertia would all
change together in an orderly
manner. Change that
affects the entire scope of
local reality cannot be analyzed with mathematics or measured with
local instruments. Yet they are visible because we can see the past and
visually compare it to the present.
I realized that my scientific way of
thinking was based on an
assumption. I always
imagined that the whole of reality was made from perpetually unchanging
atoms. Yet no perpetual motion atoms are shining from billions of long
ago galaxies. What is visible in the distant sky is relational
change.
Once I established a biblical principle as my
foundation for reasoning, instead of the idea of a pagan Greek, the
evidence popped into a completely different world view. Perhaps
this was the biblical perspective
I was
searching for.
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