Re: God's evolving humor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Mann" <deborahjmann@insightbb.com>
To: "Asa" <asa@lists.calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: God's evolving humor
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> Back to the evolution - I wouldn't be surprised to learn someday that God
> added quarks to the equation in the 20th century - or that their whole
> point
> was to keep scientists from knowing it all. Dark matter also - or rather
> the
> puzzle of too much gravity that had been called dark matter and may be
> branes. It wouldn't surprise me if God were continually tinkering with our
> 'classroom' - adding levels of complexity as we progress through 'school'.

It would surprise me a whole lot. Theologically because there's no reason
to think that there are some things about the physical world that God
doesn't want to know. The fact that God apparently operates at least
99.99999% of the time through natural processes that can be understood in
terms of rational laws suggests just the opposite. Scientifically, our
observations of distant galaxies are observations of what was going on in
the distant past & they seem to obey the same laws (including whatever dark
matter is) as stuff in our vicinity. This doesn't mean that we ever will
understand everything scientifically : Goedel's theorem seems to argue
against that. But there's no reason to think that there are things we
aren't "meant to know."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Mar 28 13:23:01 2006