Science records observations, foresees certain possibilities, and forms theories accordingly. Then come the experiments attempting to verify the theories. Today’s science fiction is often tomorrows science.
The Bible shows much greater foresight than all of science. As a matter of fact, most themes of science have an origin in the ideas of the Bible. It works like this. Stories evolve over time from bits and pieces gleaned from the Bible, and from God’s interaction with early man. These stories contain elements of truth that are incorporated into myths, false religions, or science fiction stories.
Some of those elements are recognized by science at some point as possibly being factual, and then the investigation begins in earnest. There are mysteries to be solved, and there’s money to be made, so science goes to work. The Bible is vindicated, and sometimes fulfilled in the process, but it usually goes unrecognized. Most people don’t know those ideas are from the Bible, because a bias against it has been introduced into the human mind.
I find if I tell someone that something is in the Bible, in a lot of cases it will anger them. I have been asked, “What does the Bible have to do with it.” Well, I was just attempting to show that the Bible does have something to say about things. I said all that to introduce another facet of the relationship between God and light.
“Time” is a very difficult subject. Einstein formed his “theory of relativity” to account for observations that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. The data seems to verify his theory, and it’s now considered proven. I use the word “seems” because science recognizes there are often special cases where known scientific laws no longer apply, and new theories come into play.
That is something often overlooked. A theory may be formed that will account for the known attributes of a force. That theory may be accepted as the gospel until new data forces science to look for another explanation. Light is currently explained by two theories, because neither theory fully accounts for all that is known about it.
All analogies fail at some point, but if the comparison of God to light continues, science may find a need for a trinity of theories to fully explain light. Wikipedia has some very good articles on light, and related topics.
Theories speculating that the speed of light has changed over time exist, but apparently the evidence is not conclusive. The fact that the speed of light in a vacuum is now constant has led scientists to acknowledge what they call counter-intuitive conclusions. One of which is that time would pass at a greatly altered rate, if travel at the speed of light could be attained.
Time dilation has actually been confirmed experimentally a number of times. Although the experiments are not on the scale of the time anomalies recorded in the Bible, the experiments help us see that a general agreement exists between the Bible and relativity. I’m listing this agreement as the next evidence.
9. “Relativity” seems to agree with the Bible. It can help us to gain greater understanding of the relationship of time and light to the eternal nature of God.
The Bible plainly leads us to the conclusion that God exists and operates outside of time. In other words, God can time-travel. Not only that, but he can create anomalies that people have traditionally thought of as miracles. A day can be like a thousand years to God, or a thousand years like one day. Here are a few of the more spectacular events recorded in the Bible.
a. (Genesis 2:7,8, & 19-23) On the sixth day, God created Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden, and brought the animals to Adam for him to name. From Adam’s perspective, time within that day was long enough for him to comprehend loneliness, and to have a rib surgically removed. Then by some cloning process, for lack of better terminology, God transformed the rib into a woman and brought her to Adam, all on the same day. If someone had made this up, they would have lengthened the time span to make it more believable.
b. (Joshua 10:13) When the sun and moon stood still during the battle, God may have created a local time anomaly. People outside the area may not have noticed a thing.
c. (2nd. Kings 20:9-11) The same thing may be true when God caused the shadow on the sundial to go backwards.
d. (Luke 4:5) I interpret the word “moment” in this verse to be an actual moment. Satan apparently can alter time within whatever boundaries that God has set.
e. (John 6:21) A straight-forward reading of “immediately the ship was at the land,” makes this sound like some sort of time-related “miracle.”
f. (Matthew 17:1-3) When Jesus was transfigured in the mount, he talked with Moses and Elijah, men from totally differently eras.
g. (Daniel 7:25) The Antichrist will think to change “times and laws.” I believe that he’ll try to do this through the miracles of science, rather than the normal procedures that all rulers follow.
The Bible and science are both pretty far out when it comes to astrophysics. Don’t let that throw you. There are plenty of down to earth evidences that I pray to get to later. Science is advanced enough at this point for us to see that the miracles of the Bible don’t contradict sound scientific principles at all.
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