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THE SCIENCE OF OMNIPRESENCE

Warning: information on this page is a bit technical and certainly not essential to the understanding of the study series.

Scholars have, for centuries, struggled with the notion of God's omnipresence, i.e. being everywhere at the same time regardless of the distance involved.   Of course, for many, the problem is quite simply resolved by ascribing this attribute to the "Trinity" based on the simple fact that God can do anything.   This attribute, along with God's omnipotence (all powerful) and His omniscience (all knowing) have been among those qualities long derided by atheists and Biblical antagonists as being impossible.   Over time, such criticism of Scripture gained credence, especially during the 20th century, as empirical Science supplanted the Bible as mankind's most reliable source of knowledge.

I venture to say that most churches have felt the effects of this empirical encroachment.   Beginning with Darwinism, the insidious intrusion of secular humanism into our culture, brandishing the powerful tool of empirical science, has changed or completely contradicted much of what is called "revealed truth" from the Scriptures.   This ranges across such social issues as homosexuality and abortion to crime and punishment.   In an attempt to undermine confidence in the veracity of the Bible, science has become, for all too many, the de facto authority on all knowledge.

However, the longer science continues to probe the great unknown, the more it re-discovers and confirms many of those Biblical beliefs once considered anachronistic and obsolete.   Take, for instance, this issue of OMNIPRESENCE.   At the level of Newtonian science (Classical Physics), the assertion that you "can not be in two places at the same time", certainly holds true.   More recently, however, a branch of science known as "Particle Physics" has discovered quite the opposite.  

In fact, as I follow science news, I'm intrigued to find that, as time goes by, more and more previously established scientific "theory" is being challenged by the same empirical methods from which they are derived.   Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of sub-atomic physics, i.e. quantum mechanics.   This is a field of research which studies the world of particles and forces smaller than the atom and has become, in recent years, the most mystical yet informative branch of them all.   As a passing comment, I should mention that I find striking parallels between the discoveries in quantum mechanics and the Biblical description of the "spiritual world".   But more about that later.

In 1964, an Irish physicist named John Bell, proposed his now famous Bell Theorem and turned the world of Classical Physics on it's ear.   In brief, Bell’s theorem separates the strange world of quantum mechanics from the more familiar classical observable world all around us.   It proves that hidden variable theories, like the kind that Einstein et.al came up with, are, quite simply, not true.  Instead, the science of quantum mechanics, which touts the outrageous assertion that particles can be entangled across vast distances, has found a strong acceptance among physicists the world over.

 Incredible though it seems, when the quantum state of one of these entangled particles is perturbed, the other is instantaneously affected, no matter where it might be in the entire universe.   Now, for the first time, we have a credible challenge to one of the most established laws of the universe: you can't be in two places at the same time because nothing travels faster than the speed of light.   But here it is... something, call it a thought, a force or simply a weird effect, has the capability of traveling faster than the speed of light!   So by changing the state of one particle located, for example, in Los Angeles, CA. the other is instantaneously changed even though it's millions of light years away, effectively being in two places at the same time! Science fiction? Well it's science for sure but, according to the best scientific minds in the world today, there's nothing fictitious about it.   So, once again, we've seen yet another anti-biblical argument crumble at the altar of empirical science. Stay tuned for more to come......

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