The Nature
of Evidence in Biblical Physics
We identify and
evaluate
evidence with elementary
principles. In the scientific system, what fits
their principle is termed "objective evidence." Things that do not fit
the principle are belittled as
non evidence. The first principle of
science is the assumption that the
properties of matter are
fixed and unchanging. The Bible states the opposite, that the "whole
creation is in bondage to
phthora" (Romans 8:22). This Greek word, when applied to nature, meant
the process that
corrupts all things. The phrase "whole creation" must include what God
created on the first day,
all the matter in the universe.
On the first day, Elohim finished creating (bara) the
heavens
and the earth, all of it (et). At first
darkness covered the primordial abyss (tehom). All matter everywhere
was formless (tohu) and
empty: a vacuity (bohu). Then Elohim moved across the face (paniym) of
the transitory thing
(mayim) and commanded light (owr) to be. It was then that the form of
all matter was actualized
with light. Light is the fastest most active thing in the universe.
This suggests that matter is a
dynamic relation with light, not changeless substance.
How can we certify that this is true? We can see it.
All
matter interacts with light. When matter
absorbs light, it expands. When it emits light, it shrinks in size.
Even electric charge and
magnetic phenomena are associated with light. Evidently the properties
of matter are actualized
by internal light. The simplest
definition of matter is that it is
a relationship with light.
Ephesians 5:13 "But all
things become visible when they are
exposed by the light, for everything
that becomes visible is light." The verb exposed (elegchomena)
means to
refute, to expose error. Light exposes error and makes evident
the
truth (phanero) because all things
(panta) are light
(phôs estin). Paul says light lets us see things and also
that
all things are light. All
substance is inseparably associated with light because matter is a
relationship with light. Matter
clearly contains light that constantly dithers around inside each atom.
This internal light gives
matter its form and other properties.
Evidence in biblical
physics is visible. The Bible
contains no mathematical symbols, formulae or
precise ways of measuring time and matter. This is perfectly reasonable
if all matter is always
changing itself. Such changes would affect the units of
measurement, the definitions and the
mathematical constants all together. If matter is fundamentally
changing, we could not construct
a valid science useful in the long term because everything in the
universe is always changing.
Biblical physics is
visibly confirmed. No distant galaxy
gleams with the light of perpetual
motion atoms. Yet relational changes in matter are visible
because
we can
see the past all the way
back to the creation era. At many ranges, in
spiral galaxies, we see that all atomic clocks and all orbits
continually accelerate. The stars and
gas continually accelerate outward in lanes that do not lap in closed
loops. The visible history of
the cosmos confirms biblical physics. All atoms visibly change
as they age.
What we see fits the biblical descriptions of time as
the
heavenly cycles continually accelerate. What we see fits what every
ancient society believed, that the earliest generations lived when the
cycles of the heavens were ponderously slow. We see with sight the
evidence that primordial
atoms were tiny scale models of modern atoms because they gleamed with
tiny ratios of the
frequencies of modern atoms.
Biblical physics uses
simple,
visible evidence available
to anyone who can see. The evidence is
overwhelming since hundreds of billions of galaxies in the pounded out
spreading out place
(raqiya) teach knowledge about God's great glory (Psalms 19). The
universe is so vast that we
even see creation as it happened long ago. According to the
Bible, He calls the stars to
continually come out. The heavens spread out in unbroken
continuity taking up more volume like a tent
being spread out. This is visible because we see how the galaxies
formed.
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