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To: LibWhacker

I have a science background which includes some physics, yet consider things like this behavior of light to be miracles.

Here’s another way of thinking of light that to me makes it even less intuitive:

One particle (photon) can go through two slits at the same time. (That is how one photon (particle) can interfere with itself in order to make a diffraction pattern on the back wall in the classic experiment.

And light was the very first thing we know of that God created. “Let there be light.” Light is a thing that has dual characteristics that seem impossible to exist together. When light is really examined it is not intuitive, we have to resort to deep math and lots of verbage to try to describe it.

So that dual aspect of light helps when people ask (and these tend to be smart people who are bothered the most by this) “If God knows everything, including the future, how am I not a pre-programmed robot who should not be held responsible for what I do, since I must be already destined to do whatever I do?”

(In other words, they are claiming to apparently NOT have free will in a world where God is in control.)

I tell them about light, the first thing made, that has both particle and wave characteristics, two things that do not seem to be able to coexist.

The world and life is like that, like light: God knows all, and yet we DO have free will, that particle can also go through two slits at the same time.

God even refers to himself as light.

I am not claiming it is a pefect analogy.

However light certainly seems to be another way that God reveals his nature in nature.

These things in this universe made by God are true miracles.


21 posted on 09/18/2021 11:54:44 AM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: Weirdad
These things in this universe made by God are true miracles.

Yes, and the idea that they happened somehow randomly is more difficult to believe than it is to simply believe in God.

23 posted on 09/18/2021 12:01:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Weirdad

Quantum theory and God


28 posted on 09/18/2021 3:09:02 PM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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