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HOPE ALIVE and PHYSICIS:
AGREEMENTS AND (TERMPORARY) DISAGREEMENTS
Philip G. Ney MD
Pioneer Publishing, 17/10/11
Introduction
Every new idea is put forward tentatively, tested as a hypothesis,
tested some more and if meeting certain criteria it is promulgated
more widely as a theory for all to consider, debate, refine and
use to discover more truth. Hope Alive has been in printed form
for 12 years, used, tested, published as a book, manual and scientific
paper. Now it needs a wider audience. But first, does it meet
basic criteria.
Does Hope Alive have internal consistency? Yes. Does it have predictable
outcomes? Yes. Does it agree with other accepted facts? The best
established facts are in physics. Does Hope Alive agree with the
basic tenets of physics? Lets see how basic premises of Hope Alive
and Physics coincide.
I Unitary Truth.
Particle physics, chemistry, astro-physics basically agree and
learn from each other. There is symmetry, harmony and a beauty
captured best in mathematical equations. There were 4 primary
forces in nature but with the discovery of the Z boson, the weak
force is now combined with the electromagnetic force. With the
new particle accelerator in Switzerland coming on line, there
are hopes that the three fundamental forces can be resolved into
one. That is a day that physicists and Christians long for.
Hope Alive is based on the idea that there can only be one truth
because there is only one source of truth. Hope Alive must agree
with other well established findings or it has to be modified
or there could be some adjustments in physics and chemistry.
Jesus Christ had to audacity to claim He was the "Way the
Truth and the Life" (Jn. 14:6). He is the path to all Truth,
which is the way to life, all life forever. There is unity in
truth. It is not likely that anything that doesn't fit into the
whole truth is true. Yet many discoveries were awkward, not accepted
and at first didn't seem to fit.
II The Designer.
Most astro-physicists agree that the energy and organization behind
the big bang could not have occurred by chance. The design is
too exquisitely intricate. (1) The enormous energy must have come
from somewhere or some infinitely powerful person.
Hope Alive agrees that there must have been an inconceivably intelligent
Designer who worked out all the details of humans. He must have
designed many millions of them but before making them He designed
and made a universe that could sustain them. It is increasingly
clear the universe was designed for humans (creation) and not
the humans to fit into or sculptured by the universe (evolution).
III The Creator.
While Physicists agree there was intelligent design and are reasonable
comfortable with the idea there must have been a designer, they
avoid who did the Creating and the big "Why" The ultimate
question in science is why did it happen. They state that question
has to be answered by philosophers and theologians. They seem
to forget that Ph in their PhD is for philosophy. Their branch
of intellectual endeavor began as philosophy and so they need
not be so shy.
Hope Alive firmly believes there was a Creator who had a persistent
purpose in mind long before He created anything we can now observe.
It isn't provable by the usual scientific method but almost. There
are so many sane people who attest to having encountered God and
gradually gotten to know Him. Observation is the basis of all
science and high rates of inter-observer reliability is one of
the well accepted tests. Inter-observer reliability for perceiving
God in remarkably similar fashion with unique conclusions is remarkably
high. It is higher than many observations made by pairs of people
peering down a microscope and some unusual bacteria.
IV Purpose for Human Creation.
God desired friends, intelligent, mature, interesting friends;
trillions of them. Only an infinitely wise and loving Creator
could imagine relating intimately to so many friends scattered
across the vast expanse of space. Yet God could not directly create
friends because friends need to choose to be friendly. So He designed
a creature a little lower than Himself, (Ps 8:5) in His likeness
(Gen. 1:26.) and arranged the situation where that human creature
could choose Him or something else.
Physicists who have carefully analyzed the structure of the universe
admit that it appears to been designed for some life form. They
don't go quite so far as agreeing the universe was made to sustain
human life but they will admit it seems very coincidental that
all the minute ingredients necessary for human metabolism can
be traced to some rather unusual celestial event, such as fluorine
being created when one of a binary pair of suns, supernovas. (1)
IV Existence and Purpose
God states that everything was made for a purpose (Prov. 16:4).
Since everything exists for a purpose, P=E. Since God's purpose
was friendship, E=Pf. Thus when anything loses or defeats that
God given purpose, it will cease to exist.
Hope Alive believes that humans achieve their highest goals in
becoming God's friends and that He prefers mature friends. When
by destroying themselves thru war, abortion, famine, low rates
of fertility, they defeat God's purpose for them, He will bring
their earthly existence to an end.
When people lose their purpose, the universe loses its reason
for existence and will fade. The rate it fades is proportional
to the rate humans are exterminating themselves.
Physics has recently discovered that the universe is expanding
with an exponentially accelerating rate. It is dying in extreme
cold more and more rapidly.
V Exquisite Design.
Physics is fascinated by the intricacies of mass, forces and space.
It seems there is no end of things to study and explore.
Physics asserts the universe was most energetic and complex in
the first microseconds of its existence.
Hope alive is also fascinated by the complexity and delicacies
of humans. There seems no limit to the amazingly constructed nervous
system and the seemingly limitless human mind and personality.
Hope Alive finds perinatal studies bolster its conviction that
the human was most complex and vital in the first few microseconds
after fertilization. That tiny speck contained all the basic structures
and processes of the adult human and more. That very small particle
as or will have all the attributes of an adult human and therefore
deserves to be recognized and respected as a person.
VI Uniqueness.
Physics has yet to discover any two suns, black holes, comets,
planets or moons that are identical. The question is how could
all these individuals be so balanced that they dance about each
other except when there needs to be a sub-creation event such
as a supernova. It prompts the question why would a designer do
it this way when it would have been so much easier to balance
everything by making many copies.
No two people have the same finger or iris print in the whole
world. Not even identical twins are really identical. The great
Designer seemingly desires to have a great variety of friends,
each with something different to think or say. Hope Alive believes
that each infant has a God given unique blueprint. Each child
is born with the task, shared by their parents, family and society,
to fully develop his blueprint into that fascinating person God
intended him to become. The child can read his/her blueprint and
thus know what ingredients he needs, how much and when for his
optimal physical, psychological and spiritual growth. In this
way infants are very wise and need to be listened to when they
scream for something that makes no sense to their parent.
Hope Alive believes that the individual can only be assessed and
known in terms of their blueprint. To compare them to the average
to determine their normality is a grave distortion of who they
are and an insult to their designer.
VII Parts and Whole.
Physics finds that everything observable is related to many smaller
forces and particles. There is always something behind what is
seen. There is always some much larger force or system of which
that entity is part.
Hope Alive uses its perception that everyone is necessarily part
of a family, social network, culture, nation etc. to understand
to know an individual. Every child must be welcomed into a family
and acknowledged for who he is. No child can become the person
he/she was designed to become without a family, society etc. It
is deadly wrong to "want" that child and determine if
he lives or dies in-utero by how much he/she is wanted. A child
always belongs to him/her self and to God. His family's joyful
duty is to welcome each child loaned to them, in the name of their
Creator Jesus, to find out who he truly is and obtain the nutrients,
experiences, knowledge etc that he/she needs to become the "Person
I Am Designed to Become", (PIADB). To deny any small component
of the child's needs according to his/her blueprint is to neglect
that child.
VIII Compacting.
Hope Alive believes that even though just conceived, an infant
is a person, extremely well compacted. We also believe that the
whole of God was concentrated in His Messiah, Jesus. At conception
a new, unique person began life with the fusion of the genetic
material in the sperm with those in the ovum, together with the
human spirit that God implants in every human from conception.
Physics has concluded the incredible notion that the entire universe
was, at the beginning, compacted into an infinitely small, extremely
well organized, immeasurably energetic particle. From that particle
approximately 8x 10 9th suns in each of 8 X 10 9th Galaxies was
created. It is inconceivable but almost irrefutable. That spec
at the command of its Designer's "Now" became all we
know as space, matter, energy.
With physics, Hope Alive believes these mind boggling mysteries
are able to be investigated. The discoveries can enhance our appreciation
of who God is. Letting anything remain as a mystery is not God's
purpose in promoting interesting friends.
IX Immeasurable Reality
Physics now accepts the existence of matter and energy that gives
off no radiation and cannot be detected with any ray. This dark
matter makes up 90 to 95% percent of the universe.
Hope Alive also accepts the reality of unseen forces and creatures
in the many millions. Though they cannot be seen or heard, their
influence is felt. Their communication can be detected by the
human mind, especially when asleep. God who reigns in this invisible
world is active in human affairs and directs their history.
X Time
Although time, according to time measurements, is relative, physics
now recognizes that time must be part of the equations in understanding
the universe. Although, because of vast distances, it is possible
to observe events millions of years ago, it is agreed that time
only moves forward. The history of the universe is recorded in
various types of radiation that were spawned in events long ago.
Reading that history in ancient images informs humans of origins
of their world and its universe.
Hope Alive understands that an individual can only be understood
in terms of his/her history. Moreover, that history is recorded
automatically in the person's mind. History is necessary and needs
to be carefully uncovered like an archaeological dig. It is not
to be denied or buried. The mind has a huge capacity to observe
and record what happens to the person, not only experiences but
thoughts. This memory is necessary for the person to understand
themselves.
Hope Alive also believes that time is best measured in experiences.
Time cannot run backwards nor can the experiences, which mark
its passage, be undone. Though God is merciful and can make all
things new in a new universe, he has never, to my knowledge, restored
virginity or resurrected an aborted infant.
XI Knowing its, hers and his history.
Hope Alive counselors spend considerable time unraveling and clarifying
a counselee's history. What happened to an individual and their
family goes a very long why is explaining who they are. They use
this information to help people know themselves. The insights
they gain can resolves many persistent puzzles like, "Why
do I keep failing in relationships?" or why do I keep finding
jobs that sound so attractive but in 1 to 2 weeks are so boring
I want to quit?" An individual's history will help them more
clearly foresee what they are about to do next.
Physicists spend many thousands of hours scrutinizing the universe
for objects that are on the borders of the knowable universe for
there they see very ancient history. It is history that help explains
what happened in time and space and what will likely happen again.
XII Principle of Uncertainty.
It cannot be determined if the electron is a particle or a wave
because whenever some machine attempted to determine its nature,
the cunning electron changed its nature to fit the machine. It
is now accepted by physics that it is impossible to understand
what occurred in the microseconds after the big bang was ignited.
It appears that God who wants mankind to know everything (Isa.
65:1) is keeping some secrets hidden, for now.
Early Existentialists discerned how people change as you attempt
to get to know them, so you never will know them altogether. Hope
Alive strongly emphasizes empathy in knowing people, but there
is a limit. People will always be private, not completely knowable,
hidden. Thus when anyone says, "You cannot understand me."
"My experiences are different". "How could you
know, you have never been treated like i have", those people
are correct. That person will always be alone with their perceptions
and experiences. Humans are ultimately alone except for God's
spirit who can see through and into everything. Those counselors
who are in tune with God's spirit have an advantage in deeply
knowing people. That is partly why, Hope Alive only trains Christians
to become a group counselors.
XIII. Life on Loan.
Hope Alive operates on the assumption that although humans are
given life by God. Their life is on loan. Their life must be sustained
by their Creator. It is not theirs to take. They cannot give their
life to another nor do they have the ability to take the life
of another human. They may kill their body, but that person's
life is always in God's hands. Thus no one can attempt to kill
another by terminating their physical life without specific instructions
from the Creator.
God sustains the universe and all aspects of it. Without the energy
that God funnels into a person they would die. (Ps. 3:5) It is
so with all creatures. God feeds the ravens and sends rain in
its season for the plants. Only God has life in Himself. (Jn.5:26)
Humans to live for eternity must eat from the tree of life (Rev.22:14).
Physics recognizes that the existence of all live forms depends
on the radiation from the sun. As the sun cools, the radiation
is reduced. So it is for the whole universe. Humans can tolerate
only a very narrow band of temperature changes without succumbing.
The orbit of the earth is bound to decay. This will result in
shortening of the day, increasing global warming and "natural
disasters" (earth quakes, tidal waves etc. as the tectons
shift). The gravitational and magnetic forces will realign themselves
as the earth sinks toward the sun. This has happened regularly.
(ref. graphs of global temperature changes as recorded by the
Antarctic ice core samples).
It seems clear that something or someone very powerful is periodically
boosting earth's orbit to keep humans from being cooked in their
own juices. Physics is unlikely to accredit this marvelous rescue
to God but there is no other logical explanation. God is the only
source of energy that could keep the universe from expanding and
cooling or the earth from Rapid Orbital Decay (ROD) resulting
in the incineration of terra. What would happen if God decided
He has had enough of humans trying to defeat His purpose of having
trillions of friends by their killing their own babies, killing
each other and being so selfish they won't have babies? He just
might say, "So those arrogant little humans think they can
fix global warming by cutting down on CO2 emissions. I will let
them try and let them fry."
XIV Freedom to Choose.
For friends, God wanted only those people who chose Him. So He
very carefully arranged a choice situation. In effect He told
Adam and Eve, "You must choose, Me or a sneaky fellow sliding
down the trunk of that apple tree." It would seem that choice
was predetermined. The choice between chatting with God in a magnificent
garden and animals you could talk with and everlasting life or
the super salesman who offered nothing but knowing everything,
good and bad, would seem to be heavily weighted in God's favour.
Yet the representative couple chose to die. Why? They were fatally
attracted by the offer of knowledge come easily and the power
like that of the gods, knowing e
Their choice was a free choice, 50:50 very evenly balanced. Since
then no one has a free choice nor free will. The choice to find
and know God is heavily weighted by factors (parents, availability
of the bible, intelligence etc) over which they have no influence.
However humanity as a whole still has a free choice if those who
have a greater probability of knowing God, would share that privilege.
God doesn't make finding Him easy for most. He hides behind a
veil of intense light and apparent moral and spiritual contradictions
and puzzling natural phenomena, but He does want to be found (Heb.11:6).
He strongly rewards those who persist is searching and makes the
eventual discovery as simple as e=mc2.
Quantum mechanics postulates the accidental choice of world-view.
Shrodingers Cat may be dead or alive for any individual. But if
there are parallel realities, there would be parallel moralities
so God could not exist. Einstein though he initiated the discussion
and research into Quantum Mechanics later strongly opposed it,
for he foresaw the implications. It has become increasingly clear
that Albert Einstein was right (1)and Max Plank is wrong. There
is one definite real reality.
XV Conflict
The availability of choice invariably results in a conflict. Hope
Alive believes the root of all interpersonal and intra-psychic
conflict is whether or not to know God. Those who seek to find
God are invariably rewarded for their faith that He is and that
He rewards those who seek Him in spirit and in truth. Those that
thwart God's desire for friends by turning away from Him &/or
making it impossible for others, eventually find what they desire,
alienation from God for ever and that is hellish. The conflicts
arising from choosing enmity or friendship with God are played
out in abortion, war, famine, ignorance, entertainment etc. Not
only do they affect a person directly but the damaging result
is passed on to children for at least 4 generations. To help counselees
recognized the origin of harmful conflicts, Hope Alive is careful
to examine family patterns.
Physics clearly recognizes opposing forces, gravity versus the
cosmological constant governing the expansion of the universe,
the sun's radiation trapped or reflected by the earth. Etc. But
Physics sees no moral determinant for these. They are just there.
Hope Alive accepts the prophetic words of Jesus and the prophets
that it is because of people's anti God attitude and behaviour
that there are "natural disasters" and that when people
love God and their neighbors, (I Sam. 26:23) there is plenty for
all and joy in abundance.
XVI Entropy.
In 1850 Rudolf Clausius (2) (good God loving man) described the
great "inequality", later known as entropy. Everything
is losing organization and energy. This seminal idea has increasingly
been reinforce many times by later research. It is, or should
be, obvious that it is impossible to have both devolution (entropy)
and evolution. Scientifically, entropy wins every time, so that
evolution has got to be a carefully maintained illusion; modern
evidence that Adam and Eve made a very scientifically wrong choice.
Hope Alive believes that conflict upsets human homeostasis and
uses energy for no benefit. Therefore Hope Alive spends considerable
time helping people to resolve conflict beginning with their psychological
conflicts thru helping them understand themselves. The mind will
hold the history of a hurt, harm and conflict until it is understood
(insight) and resolved (reconciliation). Then it can automatically
release it. With insight and reconciliation there is great relief
and with relief from pain clouded memories and conflict there
is internal homeostasis, symptomatic improvement, freer choosing
and behavioural changes. With these the individual lives longer
and dies happier.
XVII Healing.
God has built into every system mechanisms some self correction
and into all forms of life a modicum of self healing. In addition
God provides energy in times of need eg. boosting earth's orbit
when there is excessive orbital decay. In addition He adds healing
power to people of faith and occasionally people with no faith
in Him. In addition He aids and encourages healing facilitators,
educators and investigators. Hope Alive operates on the understanding
that counselors are privileged to provide God a little assistance
when He heals mental wounds. Is it not obvious that although the
skillful surgeon delicately closes the wound with fine sutures,
God makes the skin come together and the wound heal by mechanisms
no physician clearly understands? By being partners with Jesus,
Hope Alive has many advantages: wisdom, protection from major
mistakes, energy to keep thinking, personal harmony and joy, effective
new techniques, increasing awareness of how God does it etc. Yet
though God wants humans to live long and to live in painless joy,
He is more interested in their maturing than their curing. For
that reason the healing process is usually prolonged and pain
ridden.
Chemistry and genetics can describe in great detail how it all
works but they have little access to the operation of the mind.
The mind is certainly much larger than the sum of its parts. It
rejoices and relaxes when persistent mental puzzles are unraveled.
"I never saw this before. "Now you help me make sense
of why I keep doing…. I feel vastly relieved."
Hope Alive also recognizes that although there is relief for the
counselee and joy for the counselor, there are many damages that
cannot be rectified in this life. The trauma of physical abuse
will leave a permanent fear of close body contact. Neglect of
affection, affirmation will make it impossible to become the self
assured individual who knows what he needs for his blueprint and
is not ashamed to ask for it.
Even when good parents try hard, because we all live in a wounded
world there is for everyone, the need to mourn the loss of the
Person I Could Have Become. (PISHB). Grieving that loss is very
difficult but from the ashes realistic hopes arise.
XVIII Homeostasis, balance for efficiency.
The counselee is helped to see and develop insight and reconciliation
with those he/she has been hurt by, and those who were hurt and
those who stood by and those who were hurt by not being forgiven
and God as perpetrator, observer and victim. When this happens
there is usually considerable symptom relief, disease remission
and greater energy. To maintain that state the counselee must
live a life of loving. They must use what they have learned to
prevent in others the bitter experiences they had. By loving,
their mind is focused on others and their systems function more
harmoniously. They must also bring together their beliefs and
behaviours. When there is a discrepancy there is internal and
interpersonal disequilibrium. Consequently there is greater entropy,
their systems are not working in harmony, they are tense and restless
and they die younger.
Physics recognizes the effects of entropy on destroying local
and celestial systems. Apart from appealing to God to renew the
energy and harmony of a decaying galaxy, there is nothing humans
can do.
XX The End or is it.
The best evidence from astro-physics is that the end of the universe
is as a snowball not as a fireball. Yet the orbits of the planets
of Sol will decay as the sun accelerates its dying by becoming
a red giant. Thus humans are more likely to experience global
hotting rather than cooling. This is inevitable but when no one
can predict when because it is not clear when God will let things
"go to pot"
Hope Alive understands God is fully justified in letting humanity
die for they have frustrated His purposes by killing their young
for so long. Moreover, if God is prochoice, then He must stop
rescuing people from their ignorance and arrogance. He will eventually
accept a person's "No, God I am not interested in getting
to know you".
Physics offers no alternative to the inevitable freezing end of
everything. There will not be a bounce and a new big bang. Some
reincarnationists believe, against all scientific evidence, that
there will be a new universe in which, billions of years from
now, a wiser, kinder species will evolve. No. This is the only
life on earth we humans will ever have.
Hope Alive has a great and realistic hope that death will not
be the end of those who found friendship with God.
XX Eternal symmetry and harmony, truth, life and joy.
By measuring the deflections of the photons by something massive
but not observable, (and other techniques) physics has determined
there is dark matter and energy that comprises about 93% of everything
in the universe. Hope Alive hypothesizes that God is spirit and
has made humans in His image as essentially spirit. He will reveal
everything unobservable that was there all along. Like dark matter
and energy, people cannot see or feel their spirit but they can
see its effects. What we suspect will happen is that in some cataclysm,
the universe of matter as we know it will be atomized. When that
happens we will be able to see "dark matter" and the
spirits who live in it. God's people will be made anew, reclothed
(IICor. 5:3) with a time and space free body. Then we will be
free to travel and investigate God's real creation. Then our hopes
will all be alive.
Physics as a science does not attempt to address the ultimate
why, but more physicists are addressing "Why are we?"
If they continue to ask why and honestly accept the answers, they
will find God. For God is the only Way, Truth and Life.
Backed by good science, logic and faith, Hope Alivers have found
some of the ultimate answers to the ultimate questions. We live
and move and have our beings in God. That is our secure hope.
References.
1. The Creator and the Cosmos, Hugh Ross. NavPress, Colorado
Springs, 1994.
2. Einstein: the Life and Times, Ronald C. Clark, Avon Books,
New York, 1972.
3. Five Equations That Changed the World. Michael Guillen, Barns
Noble, New York 2000.
Summary Table
Factor
HA
Phy
Comment
1. Unity of Truth + + + T The more discovered the more unity
2. Intelligent Design + + E Extremely remote chance it was accidental
3. Purposeful Designer + +? Phys designed to support complex life
forms.
4. Purpose of Creator + +? Phys "Maybe but leave it to philosophers".
5. Exquisite design + + "Amazing", "fascinating",
"unbelievable"
6. Unique, individual + + " "Nothing like it or her
or him anywhere"
7. Whole bigger than parts + + W Whole understood from parts and
vv.
8. Compacted + + In Incredibly small, complex, powerful at the
Be beginning
9. Limit to observing + + C Cannot see spirit or dark matter
10. Relative time + + But time is necessary part of the equations
11. Must know history + + E Everything and everybody has a informative
hi history
12. Uncertainty + + Attempts to observe distort object
13. Life on Loan + + Universe and people need infusions of energy
14. Freedom to choose + + Unknowable influences govern much choice
15. Conflict + + Opposing forces
16. Entropy + + Everything, everybody is winding down.
17. Natural healing + + G God or something keeps correcting decline
18. Homeostasis + + Balance delays entropy
19. The Ending + + Local fireballs, universal snowballs.
20. Eternity + - Only God can make all things new
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