Opus 2025-363: The Original OCD

Does God personally maintain every electron in the entire universe in orbit around its nucleus?  Is the nature of all of these principles of physics such that if God did not constantly monitor them they would go bonkers?  Of course, He does this in His spare time, which just tells us how infinite God is in His abilities and His wisdom.  The question I guess is, does God constantly hold things in place or has He set up the principles of physics and what we might call the laws of nature so that things can run on their own?

I wonder about just allowing the atoms to do their own thing.  Picture taking a rock and rolling it down the side of the hill.  If it were possible, and I know it’s not, to roll identical rocks, down identical hills, I still can’t picture those rocks ending up in the same place at the bottom of the hill.  I can’t picture them even being close to each other.  That would be a random universe where God did not keep an eye on things.  I can’t picture the untold billions of atoms each one deciding to bounce its own way instead of following the path it was given.

I was listening to a conversation between Jordan Peterson and a podcaster named Matt Fradd, and Peterson commented on how one of the newest discoveries about life is that the essential factors in our development are self repairing.  I believe his point was that mutation is almost impossible, because the core cells, DNA, genes, whatever it is that he was referring to, have a built-in capacity to repair themselves back to their optimal state when something causes them to mutate.  Is that a random law of the universe or is it the active hand of God?

Everything we learn scientifically seems to point toward a designer.  You and I probably know who that designer is.  I think it’s pretty obvious.  That doesn’t give the details of the God of the Bible, but it certainly rules out the accidental development of the universe.  Keep in mind, one of the great hidden secrets of the debate between creation and evolution is that there is not enough time for evolution to have taken place.  No matter how far back the scientist have moved the beginning, they can add as many billions they want, there just is not enough time for this to have developed accidentally.

Keep in mind that if you believe that all of this could develop accidentally then that also means that the law of gravity could cease to work tomorrow, you know, accidentally.  Keep your feet on the ground.  Look up.  Wonder.

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