Science and spirituality

Units of time

God may have created lunar months to be exactly four weeks (28 days), and a year to be exactly 12 lunar months (336 days or 48 weeks). Then solar years god slightly longer and days slightly shorter as a product of the Fall of Sin, but lunar months stayed more or less the same.

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Contrary to popular belief, the speed of light is not constant, it’s actually decreasing. The speed of light may have been ten billion times faster on the Fourth Day than it is today. Alternatively, the speed of light was ten billion times faster during the Planck Era or Inflation Period than it is today. Reference: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, by Walt Brown. https://www.creationscience.com/

Where did the speed of light come from? Are cosmological constants eternal? How could the speed of light just HAPPEN to be what it is?

I posted something similar last week: https://wqscience.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/the-speed-of-light-is-not-constant/

Quantum mechanics

String theory postulates that there are ten dimensions, 11 if you count time. But seven of them are small.

Could even living things have seven additional dimensions, so small that they (including us humans) cannot sense or perceive them?

Maybe God created the world to be ten dimensions, not three. Then after either the Fourth Day, the Fall, or the Flood, seven dimensions shrunk greatly and three dimensions grew to cosmological scale.

The oceans were not created salty like they are today

One issue is that most of marine life cannot survive in freshwater. Most sharks, including great whites, require at least half of the salinity of the ocean.

Maybe before the fall, the oceans weren’t exactly created freshwater, but created less salty than today.

Maybe creatures were initially adapted to more freshwater.

Noah’s flood made the oceans saltier. Then creatures had to adapt to the saltier water.

How to reconcile the Bible with modern science

Many people have left the church because they deem Christianity to conflict with the established facts of science. Blame evolution for lack of faith!

How do we reconcile the Bible and modern science?

It’s not the gap theory. It’s not day-age creationism. I like the framework theory though.

Young Earth creationism is reinterpreting the scientific evidence in attempt to fit it with their religious beliefs. Theistic evolution is reinterpreting Scripture in attempt to fit it with the established facts of modern science. Old Earth creationism is a combination of both. Neither of them seem to work.

But here are at least two possible ways to reconcile the Bible with modern science.

Scheduled creation or non-linear-time creation-evolution theory

On the third day, God set plants to be created at a certain time. On the fourth day, God set the Sun, Moon, and stars to be created millions of years before that certain time plants were created.

Genesis 2 give a different order of creation of man and trees than Genesis 1.

Merged timeline creation-evolution theory

Can two pasts have the same present? Can two presents have the same future? Maybe BOTH creation and evolution happened, just in different pasts. Sounds like a Breath of the Wild kind of scenario.

Before I get to the fan theory, I’ll just say that it’s popular that Breath of the Wild is in the Fallen Hero timeline. It takes place long after all of the other Zelda games, but it doesn’t fit into any particular timeline. The fan theory goes that Breath of the Wild is a merge of both the Adult Link and Child timelines, but that fan theory hasn’t been confirmed and as far as I’m aware, it has yet to be debunked.

It’s also like merging continuities in Marvel and DC. But while Marvel, DC, and Zelda are all fictional, there’s no reason that God could do the same thing and merge timelines in real life. God’s all-powerful.

Maybe the original past was Creation, but sometime after the Fall or the Flood, God changed the past to an evolutionary past. Maybe the evolutionary past was created as a product of the Fall of Sin.

Quantum Mechanics and string theory

String theory teaches there are ten dimensions, 11 if you count time. Seven dimensions are so small, but might have been once much larger. I will write an article about religion and quantum mechanics in two weeks.

Maybe BOTH creation and evolution happened at the same time, but in different points of the seven dimensions. Inspired by Hugh Ross “Reasons to Believe.”

Maybe objects were swapped between the evolution and creation timelines?