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This isn't the answer you're looking for, but I'm reminded of the book of Genesis: > "[1:2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the
by all2 8y ago
This isn't the answer you're looking for, but I'm reminded of the book of Genesis:
> "[1:2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [1:3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
If you'd like to read more, here you go: https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/1/1/s_1001 https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/1/1/s_1001
I will note that in the above it says "morning" and "evening". In some sense, the writing is old enough that we assume that is what the original hebrew meant, but we don't actually have context to say. I've heard that the word for "morning" (erev) could have meant "order", and "evening" (boker) could have meant "disorder".
So what you get is 7 days (depending on who you ask) where the second law of thermodynamics is "wound up", if you will, which resulted in an ordered universe that isn't just a homogeneous soup.
- sixdimensional 8y agoThis quotation demonstrates that man has been pondering this same quandary for a great many years. How does one conceive of that which is out of our comprehension? This is where the fields of logic, philosophy, religion, science, etc. try to help build a model for understanding. However, I find that no model we have is sufficient to truly understand, not yet at least.
- xenospn 8y agoReligion may have started building a model for understanding - but has been failing for at least 5000 years.
- all2 8y ago> but has been failing for at least 5000 years. I encourage you to take some time and study the Christian church during the Middle Ages. Much of what we consider 'modern' learning, teaching, and method came about because there were monks an nuns who were very serious about their work. Likewise, I encourage you to study Islam since its inception; there also clerics (I don't know the proper terms) sought to increase understanding in literature an science some 500 years before the church in Europe. Also take some time to look into various religious orders (Hindu, Buddhism, and others) throughout Asia that, in very similar fashion, worked to preserve and expand knowledge within their orders and in their surrounding communities. If anything, religion has been a driving force towards foundational methods of understanding, knowledge acquisition, and preservation.
- krapp 8y ago>So what you get is 7 days (depending on who you ask) where the second law of thermodynamics is "wound up", if you will, which resulted in an ordered universe that isn't just a homogeneous soup. Please... please don't imply that the book of Genesis, or any similar religious work, holds some hidden insight into modern science. The authors of Genesis, whoever they were, did not know what thermodynamics was, and were not writing about it when they came up with the Genesis account.
- all2 8y ago> Please... please don't imply that the book of Genesis, or any similar religious work, holds some hidden insight into modern science. I didn't. Nor was that my intent. I only wanted to point out that there was something interesting and relevant to the above post.
- all2 8y agoI would like to know from those who down voted my comment: why down vote? My intent was to add an extra dimension to the conversation.