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†. Gen 1:3 . . Then God said "Let there be light" and there was light.
In the April 2014 edition of Discover magazine, astrophysicist/cosmologist
Avi Loeb states that the Bible attributes the appearance of stars and galaxies
to the divine proclamation "Let there be light". Is Mr. Loeb's statement
correct? No; of course not. God created light on the very first day of
creation; while glowing celestial objects weren't created until the fourth.
The Bible is notoriously concise in some places; especially in it's story of the
creation of light. Genesis tells us that light's origin was supernatural; viz:
God did it. However, Genesis doesn't tell us "how" God did it. Well; thanks to
science we today know a lot more about how God did some things than the
author of Genesis.
Well; the creation of light was an intricate process. First of all; God had to
create particulate matter, and along with those particles their specific
properties, including mass. Then He had to invent laws to govern how
matter behaves in combination with and/or in the presence of, other kinds of
matter in order to generate photons.
The same laws that make it possible for matter to generate photons also
make other conditions possible too; e.g. fire, wind, water, ice, soil, rain, life,
thermodynamics, fusion, dark energy, gravity, atoms, molecules,
magnetism, radiation, high energy X-rays and gamma rays, temperature,
pressure, force, inertia, friction, and electricity; et al. So the creation of light
was a pretty big deal; yet Genesis scarcely gives its origin passing mention.
The interesting thing about the laws of physics is that they're not absolute
laws. No; they are created laws-- created as a companion to the created
cosmos to regulate how the cosmos, with all of its forms of life, matter, and
energy, behaves. In other words; just as God has power over all of nature
and all of nature's natural processes; he therefore has power over the laws
of physics and can make things in our world behave quite contrary to the
ways you'd expect.
Take for example the floating axe head in 2Kgs 6:5-6. Solid chunks of iron
don't float. That's unnatural. Another example is the fire-proof bush of Ex
3:2. A bush that's impervious to fire is unnatural. It should have flared up
and Moses knew it too but it didn't because God can easily modify the
behavior of everything He ever created, including, but not limited to, the
properties of fire and water.
2Cor 4:6 verifies that light wasn't introduced into the cosmos from outside in
order to dispel the darkness and brighten things up a bit; but rather, it
radiated out of the cosmos from inside-- from itself --indicating that the
cosmos was created to be self-illuminating by means of the various
interactions of the matter that God made for it; including, but not limited to,
Peter Higgs' boson.
Cont.
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†. Gen 1:3 . . Then God said "Let there be light" and there was light.
In the April 2014 edition of Discover magazine, astrophysicist/cosmologist
Avi Loeb states that the Bible attributes the appearance of stars and galaxies
to the divine proclamation "Let there be light". Is Mr. Loeb's statement
correct? No; of course not. God created light on the very first day of
creation; while glowing celestial objects weren't created until the fourth.
The Bible is notoriously concise in some places; especially in it's story of the
creation of light. Genesis tells us that light's origin was supernatural; viz:
God did it. However, Genesis doesn't tell us "how" God did it. Well; thanks to
science we today know a lot more about how God did some things than the
author of Genesis.
Well; the creation of light was an intricate process. First of all; God had to
create particulate matter, and along with those particles their specific
properties, including mass. Then He had to invent laws to govern how
matter behaves in combination with and/or in the presence of, other kinds of
matter in order to generate photons.
The same laws that make it possible for matter to generate photons also
make other conditions possible too; e.g. fire, wind, water, ice, soil, rain, life,
thermodynamics, fusion, dark energy, gravity, atoms, molecules,
magnetism, radiation, high energy X-rays and gamma rays, temperature,
pressure, force, inertia, friction, and electricity; et al. So the creation of light
was a pretty big deal; yet Genesis scarcely gives its origin passing mention.
The interesting thing about the laws of physics is that they're not absolute
laws. No; they are created laws-- created as a companion to the created
cosmos to regulate how the cosmos, with all of its forms of life, matter, and
energy, behaves. In other words; just as God has power over all of nature
and all of nature's natural processes; he therefore has power over the laws
of physics and can make things in our world behave quite contrary to the
ways you'd expect.
Take for example the floating axe head in 2Kgs 6:5-6. Solid chunks of iron
don't float. That's unnatural. Another example is the fire-proof bush of Ex
3:2. A bush that's impervious to fire is unnatural. It should have flared up
and Moses knew it too but it didn't because God can easily modify the
behavior of everything He ever created, including, but not limited to, the
properties of fire and water.
2Cor 4:6 verifies that light wasn't introduced into the cosmos from outside in
order to dispel the darkness and brighten things up a bit; but rather, it
radiated out of the cosmos from inside-- from itself --indicating that the
cosmos was created to be self-illuminating by means of the various
interactions of the matter that God made for it; including, but not limited to,
Peter Higgs' boson.
Cont.
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