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The
world is governed by mathematical laws - Not God!
Science discovers how God makes
things happen but it cannot claim to actually know the
ultimate source of events.
The simple reason for this challenge is that the concept
of God in Christianity has become distorted. The church
is largely to blame for this and for the wrong assertions
it made which brought it into conflict with the new
knowledge discovered in science. The idea of God which
the ancient Greeks had was of a creator like a watchmaker
who set the universe going and then left it alone. The
Christian concept of God took on the idea of God becoming
incarnate as Jesus and ‘stepping in to His creation
to help out’. As such the idea became established
that God intervened occasionally but was otherwise separate
from his creation. From then on whenever a natural law
was discovered the response was ‘aha! no intervention
here just a straight forward rule’. Thus God was
confined to existing only in the gaps of human knowledge.
Successes of classical physics brought its assertion
of the unquestioned truth of its description of the
elementary building blocks of nature. This cut out any
role for God in all but a spiritual esoteric capacity.
With the collapse of theories of classical physics the
door has been thrown open for these misconceptions to
be trashed. We can no longer say that our theories of
the elementary building blocks of nature are the unquestionable
truth.
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