thought putting God and science in the same arena would be cool.
2006-07-22 15:55:38 · 18 answers · asked by serenity_may 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes! How astute of an observation. There are many Bible verses that support this. See Psalm 36:9; Exodus 14: 24; 24:29-35; 33:17-20. So glad you have come to this enlightening conclusion!
This doesn't make God impersonal, but instead the very essence of everything that ever can be. If we are made in his image, imagine just how much more He is!
2006-07-22 16:07:05 · answer #1 · answered by da chet 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's always a problem with putting science and god in the same arena because both sides are so closed minded to the possibility of one another they refuse to see their common ground.
What you just described makes sense, but only if you think about God in a metaphorical sense, or as our initial concept of energy. Some religions, like Christianity,take a more literal interpretation and adhere to the descriptions in the Bible. Some religions like certain groups of wicca and gnostics have a similiar mentality that I just described, that all gods are an interpretation of the same thing and can be equally recognized. Right now I'm studying Buddhism ,and most people don't realize they don't believe in god either, but rather the potential of yourself, humanity, and the law of cause and effect.
I've also run into the problem where people will say easily that God can not be destroyed and was not created, but they can not apply this same "logic" to the universe itself.
Some day, people will progress beyond the religions we have now to a further understanding of reality. It's happened all through history!
2006-07-22 16:06:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, anti-matter aside (as it's only "created" unnaturally in cylotrons and only as anti protons that live for a millisecond) you're thinking of MATTER.
MATTER can't be created nor destroyed only converted.
Energy, is matter moving at the Speed of Light Squared.
Engery IS created as a byproduct of MATTER reactions (chemistry) in the form of heat, light, sometimes even gamma radiation (atomic piles and fission).
When an atomic bomb goes off the U235 is converted into massive energy of all types and the U235 probably also breaks down into other more inert elements and may even produce water molecules. No one truly knows for sure as it's hard to measure do to the destructive powers.
So it is, under the current rules and laws (subject to change due to more work on "anti-particles") Matter.
God is matter and energy. God lives in both states. Everything is GOD and GOD is everything.
It's always been here and always will be here.
GOD created man out of dust of the Earth with a breath, who knows what the chemistry of God breath is!
Man is converted matter. Even under the theory of evolution. Both sides agree on that point. It's the particulars on how we came about that's in dispute!
The evolutionsist claim if you shake up enough amino acids under the right condition a virus or amoeba or some other single celled "life" form will come, thrive, grow and mutiple from that "inert" set of chemcial matter.
No one has yet to do it, however!
The "randomists" say you just have to keep trying, even if it takes forever, with different combinations. It's a roll of the dice, in other words. And it's possilbe that if you do it once you can't do it a second time with the same compounds and process (nice way of getting around the "repeated, independent" concepts of hard science, that you document and ANYONE ELSE can repeat what you did and get the same results -- and RANDOMISTS call CREATIONISTS weird?! They build in their own "Oh, this is why you can't do it twice" conepts into THEIR religion!)
Eistein said: God doesn't play craps!
2006-07-22 16:04:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about this?
God cannot exist within the physical universe, or in any place where there is matter, energy, space or time.
If God is the creator of all, then God created the universe. God has to exist outside, or better yet independently, of the universe, or any place where there is matter, energy, space or time.
Matter, energy, space and time, whether this universe or elsewhere, is a somethingness. Somethingness, i.e. something, must first be created. So if God is the creator, an infinite creator, then God first had to create somethingness, i.e. place with matter, energy, space and time. Therefore, God exists in nothingness. If God does not create something, what is there? God is an infinite nothingness with an infinite ability to create.
How could God be trapped and limited to a mere physical universe? And if God created the universe, why would God exist within it? Sounds boring for God. If God were energy, then God would not only be subject to the highly limiting rules of this universe found in physics and such, but even further limited to the rules of energy! (Unless you're considering God to be in the form of God Energy, not like the way we think of normal energy, which I can appreciate.)
Yes? No? Maybe?
2006-07-22 16:28:09 · answer #4 · answered by Jeff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is frequently described in the Bible as having a fiery appearance (actually made of something that looks like fire).
Something to consider: if God created everything, then He stands outside of (and within) creation. We (humans) measure everything by created things (movement of the Earth around the sun, rotation of the Earth, carbon dating, etc.).
Something else to consider: scientists keep looking for the origins of the universe. Basically, they believe that it started from dust and gases. Where did the dust and gas come from? They seem to keep pushing the origins farther and farther away into the far regions of space, but still--where did the dust and gas come from?
As for Kip's comments above: he needs to read the Bible. Satan is NOT God's equal. God allows Satan and the demons to exist. The Bible shows God using Satan as part of His plans. God is not in Heaven wringing His hands, wondering "What do I do? How do I defeat Satan?" The Bible even shows that Satan does go up to Heaven to speak with God (see the opening chapters of Job). TV, movies, and even some churches are to blame because they teach an inaccurate, nonBiblical view of the very "good book" that they are trying to present. I have met some Christians who don't even have this issue correct and have followed TV and movie ideas of the Bible. How sloppy of them. In any other area of life, one would be scolded for not quoting from their references correctly.
2006-07-22 16:03:24 · answer #5 · answered by Zippy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God the Father is Spirit. very similar to the thought of energy. Spirit is all powerful.
Read the King James version of the Holy Bible.
2006-07-22 15:59:37 · answer #6 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is Light :)
The Christian God is light. He is the source of Energy.
God created all of the Matter, Energy, Space, Time of our universe.
Regarding God and Science --
For scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm
I used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ (e.g., see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html ).
Cordially,
John
2006-07-22 15:57:10 · answer #7 · answered by John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 40:26- "Raise your eyes high and see.Who has created these things?It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number,all of whom He calls even by name.Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power,not one of them is missing."
Jehovah God is a powerful spirit being,who created all things.Take the sun for example.Only about half a billionth of the sun's energy output reaches our earth.
Yet Jehovah created the sun.That alone should leave us awestruck.
2006-07-22 18:54:52 · answer #8 · answered by lillie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes you wonder how if God is the "Supreme Being" why does the good book describe a big battle between him and Satan. Doesn't "Supreme" mean nothing can beat it? It's the end all, be all? Untouchable? Doesn't sound like much of a battle.
2006-07-22 16:03:00 · answer #9 · answered by kip_digler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting thought. It wouldn't fit into the Christian view of God that's for sure. It's very impersonal, your idea of God.
As for me, I think all that 'God' is is a construct of human imagination.
2006-07-22 15:58:35 · answer #10 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋