by Michael Wood

Why indeed? You can live your life perfectly amicably and even comfortably if you live in the west without even thinking of a God. You can go through your life relatively free from catastrophe and trouble as you, and many of your friends and relatives do.

Of course, all of us face the odd reverse in our plans and hopes, but we get by, its just part of life isn’t it?

So why bother with the idea of God?

Well, for a start, try thinking about:

2. The earth that we live on. If you travel out in the country or out beyond into the wild, you will at some stage have been struck by the wonder and diversity and beauty of it all. Despite humans, there are still enormous tracts of the earth probably the majority that have not been ruined and are still largely untouched and beautiful.
3. The universe that our planet is a minuscule, unimportant part of. Look at the Hubble pictures of the universe, read about scientists’ views about the full extent of the universe. Think about the fact that this whole stupendous universe once had a beginning – and the fact that science does not know (and cannot know) what exactly that beginning was.

Scientists think now that there is a higher set of physics law above all the laws of physics that they currently work with.

Scientists now think that all matter in the universe came from light, that light could be the source of all created matter in the entire universe.

That’s it ….. or is it?

What about quantum mechanics?

Now I want you to consider all of that material universe that you’ve been happily managing and manipulating all your life from an entirely different perspective, that of quantum mechanics. This is the scientific research that is looking at the very basis of all matter in the universe and how it operates – a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles. In other words, physics getting right down to the most basic levels of everything – what it is actually is. The answers emerging may be surprising.

“Atoms can be imagined as a nucleus of protons and neutrons, and a surrounding “cloud” of orbiting electrons which “take up space”. However this is only somewhat correct, because subatomic particles and their properties are governed by their quantum nature, which means they do not act as everyday objects appear to act – they can act like waves as well as particles or as pieces of information and they do not have well-defined sizes or positions. In the Standard Model of particle physics, matter is not a fundamental concept because the elementary constituents of atoms are quantum entities which do not have an inherent “size” or “volume” in any everyday sense of the word.

Every aspect of a particle can be expressed as information, and put into binary code. And so subatomic particles may be the bits that the universe is processing, rather like a giant supercomputer. The idea is that the universe emanates from the information inherent within it – or which enters it from an external source. In other words, the Wheeler theory: “every “it” – every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself – derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely – even if in some contexts indirectly – from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits.” The universe and everything in it is – information and nothing else.”

I want you to stop and think about that for a bit. It means, that all our experiences to the contrary, everything that seems all too solid in this world is in fact comprised of information and further it is theorised: is dependent upon that information being constantly renewed in order to maintain its material identity. That renewal coming from an extra-universal source because nothing can be created inside the universe.

If that is true, it raises enormous questions about … well everything. Some young and very radical scientists have said that it helps to think of our universe as a hologram : It all seems very real – until you reach out and touch it, in our case until you start to study it and the further back you go, all you find is pieces of information emanating from somewhere else.

Let’s bring that down to the personal level – the “me” level. Your body then is nothing more than an enormous assemblage of information. That assemblage presumably could be replicated. Perhaps even reassembled after death. If that information is being constantly renewed, then the source of that renewal must “know” where to send every tiny bit of information in order that your body continues to be you. That presupposes that there is “knowledge” of “you” elsewhere. If that is the case, then just precisely who are “you”?

This sequence of thinking has begun to lead a number of very advanced scientists to start mumbling about a “God shaped hole out there somewhere”, as indeed it should. If their theorising is anywhere near true, there had better be a very good explanation of the source of the renewal information that keeps our universe in existence and of its creation in the first place.

There can for instance, have been no “big bang” because that would have required pre-existing matter.

Scientists now think that all matter in the universe came from light, and that light is the source of all created matter in the entire universe.

So where did the light come from?

Believers have always said: “God is light,” quoted from 1 John 1:5.

The Church talks of uncreated light, (for instance, the light of Mount Tabor) as distinct from the created light of a fire or the sun.

God is unlike anything that is in the universe.

He is outside the universe.

So, give some thought about the idea that God actually exists, but is unlike anything you have ever heard of.

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