Scientific Accuracy of the Bible V: A Shock to The System

[Continued from previous post]

The discovery of electric current opened a new era in the investigation of electricity and magnetism. At lightning speed throughout the 19th century, followed the discovery of electromagnetism, electromagnetic induction, electrolysis, the electromagnetic nature of light, electric waves, photoelectricity and even cosmic rays. The atomic nature of electricity and electrical constitution of matter, all combined to transmute the Newtonian mechanical world into the electrical/quantum world of today.

The three avenues of approach to the explanation of this new world, atomic physics, astrophysics and field physics, are evidently now converging. Though the quantum is everywhere around us, it's understandability is through matter alone. Furthermore, only by means of the electric, magnetic and a gravitational force is it possible for us to lay hold of quantum knowledge and bring it forth to measure. All of which were described at least elementarily by Ezekiel in antiquity.

At the atomic level the world is now fundamentally seen to be electrical instead of mechanical in its nature. A new and system of physics has become necessary and this need was supplied by Einstein with his theory of relativity. The world in consequence has ceased to be one of absolute quantities and dimensions and has become more akin to symbols and imagery. In Einstein’s world of Relativity not only are the fundamental quantities of mass, length and time variable but even the positions of the moving particles of matter can only be alluded to or hinted at via figurative language…just like Ezekiel’s prophetic language. 

The trend of physical and biological science in the latter half of the nineteenth century was to embrace a single mechanical scheme of nature and the animate/inanimate worlds in a Theory of Everything and in physics a Unified Field Theory. All this would be based upon the triple foundation of the atomic theory of matter, the principle of the conservation of energy or the theory of evolution, cells and genome. These theories would be then supported by a multitude of brilliant discoveries over the next centuries. The decline and fall away from previous held theories has now been shockingly swift. Fundamental premises formed over centuries are failing in mere years. The more we learn the more we are realizing the stalwart theories of old are obsolete and in some cases laughably incorrect. It has left science scrambling for footing.

Advocates of aforementioned theories made the fatal mistake of assuming that in physics and biology the true system of the world had unquestionably been reached and exactly defined. In its concentration upon matter and motion the disciples of materialism took no account of the growing significance of the revolution in thought which the development out of the electrical and quantum realm. With the opening of the present era in physics, the remarkable discoveries of the composite structure of the atom, of the electrical nature of its parts, and of their final resolution into wave-packets…new science discoveries have combined to demolish the chief physical foundations of materialism.

As a physical system, materialism becomes paradoxical and even grotesque at the quantum level. The principle of certainty has been superseded by the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg, in which the position and velocity of  particles cannot both be known simultaneously with certainty. It is now accepted in the 21^st century that physical science can give no absolute ultimate explanation of the nature of the world but merely symbolic descriptions of its phenomena just as Ezekiel did nearly 2500 years ago. The concept of the rigidity of physical law has vanished and in its place has come the understanding that the so-called laws of nature are now statistical probabilities of the universe. Statistics represented by variables and symbolic mathematical equations.  The rise of the doctrine of relativity has shown that the concept of the world as a combination of absolute qualities is in fact...wrong. It is clear that materialism which science has attempted to reinforce as an unassailable foundation of scientific fact has been in reality, founded upon a fantasy rather than a real knowledge.

In the realm of biology a similar condition has unfolded. The origin of species by natural selection as Darwin taught, finds diminishing support. It is now being set aside with no generally acceptable hypothesis to take its place. Why? No new species has ever appeared under observation, and even new varieties have no characters that were not either dominant or recessive in their parent forms. Species once obliterated never reappear. Their number seems to be fixed. As in Physics for reasons of dynamic instability a new element cannot be formed within the present limits from hydrogen to uranium, so too for reasons of biological instability a new species cannot exist. The attempts to breed one have been futile. Whatever their source, the number of permutations in physics and biology seem to be fixed just as Genesis 1 states...

Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

If the so-called law of evolution has reached an impasse as apparently it has, it implies that the whole question of morphology must be considered afresh on a radically different basis. In the meantime the hypothesis of organic evolution affords no more secure a foundation for materialism than did physics or physical science.

The validity of a system of philosophy or  science is directly proportional to the strength and permanence of its foundation. Just as many of the basic concepts of physics of the nineteenth century have been completely superseded by those of the twentieth and twenty-first, so too the discoveries yet to be made will assuredly 'infold' old concepts of the universe into even more revolutionary ideas. To discover permanence among man-made theories has been shown to be foolishness or foolhardy.

From this point forward the reconciliation of the Bible with science must be approached with caution. Every single time theologians have attempted to merge theology with science it is the science that comes to naught. There is a risk tying the Bible to man-made theories or to the wisdom of the world or thoughts that exalt themselves against God as stated in 2 Cor 10:3-4. Many former theories of science have been crushed due to phenomena in the quantum realm. So too will many scientific theories we currently believe. 

Should we even be trying to reconcile the Bible with Science? I personally don’t think so. We're trying to force the current in the wrong direction. Current can only flow in one direction unless a larger power surge pushes back from the other end. The proverbial shock to the system. I believe God in His power is again pushing back on mankind to shock us back into reality. Everything flows from God not the other way. When trying to plug God into a man-shaped outlet He will never fit as God does not do or think as men do. Science needs to align itself with Scripture. Just the opposite of what is currently happening. The world has it completely backwards. No wonder our system is grounding out and short circuiting.

Psalm 62:11 Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: That power belongs to God, and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Volumes were once written to reconcile Genesis and its Hebrew text with Ptolemaic astronomy (geocentric) that said the earth was the center of the universe. It just wasn’t true. From the standpoint of Biblical person, reconciliation will come only when science itself is in possession of the perfect truth of the order of creation. In other words, Science needs to align itself with Scripture. Just the opposite of what is currently happening. The world has it completely backwards…just as Paul said about the wisdom and power of the world. As such I will close with two passages from Paul in 1 Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 1:26-28 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.

As for knowing things and knowledge...

1 Corinthians 13:8-12 …. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.