I was intrigued by a friend’s
post on FaceBook™ concerning an article on the rising scientific thought that
matter is always created by mind.(Read
the article here)
Here is a brief excerpt:
It’s been more than
one hundred years since Max Planck, the theoretical physicist who originated
quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics, said that he
regards “consciousness as fundamental,” that he regards “matter as a
derivative from consciousness,” and that “everything we talk about, everything
that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
He is basically saying that the immaterial
‘substance’ of consciousness is directly intertwined with what we perceive to
be our physical material world in some sort of way, shape or form, that
consciousness is required for matter to be, that it becomes after
consciousness….[2]
Now this is not very far
from the way Genesis begins:
In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. The earth
was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the
surface of the waters. Genesis
1:1-2(NLT)
Even the Hebrew word used
for “created” (bar-a) translates literally (and loosely) “brought into being
from nothing”. The Biblical concept of the
Genesis creative event depicts God as Spirit who brings into existence (from
nothing) all things.
What’s intriguing to me is
that some scientists are hailing this as “new discovery” when it is something
the worshiping community of faith has celebrated as bedrock truth for millennia;
God, as Spirit, beheld the nothingness and made something outside of Himself. With God it was not simply mind
OVER matter; before God created, there WAS no matter.
This is so consistent with
ancient thought which marries “word” and “deed”. God spoke, saying Let there be…, and it became
reality…light, heavens, stars, atmosphere, animals…and us! The word became what God thought.
Let me allow the article to
have (nearly) the last word today:
Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a
“mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream
of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to
look more like a great thought than like a great machine.[3]
As for me, if the scientific
community is turning towards the metaphysical, where, as the article suggests “consciousness
is required for matter to be”, then I have to add my applause for the great
minds that have seen the light!
And I have to invite them to
come worship the Source of all light this Sunday!
For You Today
What do you believe about
creation?
What was God’s purpose?
Where do you fit in with
that purpose?
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