Re: Special Creation

--- David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to ask a question that will probably sound completely wacky.
> I hope I can be free to ask it without folks thinking I'm advocating
> some kind of nutty view, or that I read too much science fiction
> (which, BTW, I do). Ok, so here it is: is there any literature that
> considers the possibility that the Fall and/or the Flood were
> cross-dimensional events? I've read (or tried to read) Schroeder's
> book about Genesis and time, but I'm thinking about something a bit
> more.
>
> What if something like the multiverse theory is true? Could the
> Garden exist in a parallell universe, with Adam and Eve being expelled
> across dimensions into a much older Earth? Adam and Eve are expelled
> from the Garden and a cherubim and a "flaming sword" are placed there
> to prevent them from accessing the tree of life (Gen. 3:24). The
> "tree of life" appears again in the New Jerusalem in Rev. 22. Could
> this suggest physical locations that are not currently accessible to
> us in ordinary space?
>
> And/or could Noah have experienced some kind of relative time aboard
> the ark, such that the Flood was ~5MYA but Noah experienced it as a
> year? Could the ark have been travelling through "Planck space"?
>
> Please -- I really am a rational guy, and I find all these discussions
> fascinating and troubling at the same time. No suggestion here that
> there's any reason to believe anything like the above. But maybe it's
> possible that the ongoing work in quantum physics and cosmology will
> provide options that we're not even dreaming about now?
>
Well, I for one don't think you're nutty (of course I used to read too much
science fiction too. Still do on occasion) Your scenario is fascinating, but
if it's really what happened, I despair of a) Being able to establish that that
indeed is what happened and b) Convincing the person in the pew (Obviously the
second is much harder than the first!)

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
586.986.1474 (work) 248.652.4148 (home) 248.303.8651 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Thu Mar 2 12:16:29 2006