The creation room, if you could call it that, was dark and filled with just a hint of obscure smoke. Some angels preferred to call the location the "rec" or recreation room. After all, re-creation was about to happen. In a way, creation was one eternal round.
Angels lined the room's perimeter with their eyes fixated on the gigantic table in the "center." The table was filled with dynamic object balls in a high-energy state. The balls were racked perfectly and specifically for this round. The balls were fusing into an intense singularity, and were in the process of shrinking. The buzz in the room suddenly became quiet when God walked into the room with His deluxe carry case.
The anticipation was thick. No angel was sure what God would do. How could they? Even as they watched God's movements, no one was quite sure what they saw.
God went to the table and opened His carry case. Some thought they saw God lift out a two-point compass. Others saw a three-piece cue being quickly assembled. The brand name was GODHEAD, but others thought they saw TRINITY. Whether compass or cue, whether one brand or the other, the tool was assembled into a powerful unified whole. The angelic audience could sense all the potential energy.
God chalked-up the tip, and then approached the foot of the table. He set the cue ball down, and then adjusted His grip. His stance was perfect.
God then announced to the angels, "Let there be light." No time was wasted. The tool struck the cue ball just above its center, and at top speed the cue ball hit the 1-ball flush yielding an entire transfer of force.
Several of the witness angels exclaimed in unison, "Nice break!" Others said, "Great follow through." One thing for sure: it was a big bang.
The foreheads of the angels glistened as the room heated. Particles and antiparticles exploded from the singularity, and the room even seemed to expand.
A young angel in "Beginning Physics" (more formally known in heaven as Genesis Physics) blurted, "I think I saw a God boson." Nearby angels with more experience put their fingers to their lips and made a "SHHHHHH" sound. The young angel got the message.
Quarks and antiquarks scattered everywhere, but they showed a slight asymmetry. Also flying in all directions were leptons and antileptons, especially electrons and positrons.
Photons (light) were emitted when particles collided with antiparticles. The angels put on their sunglasses, and frankly they looked as "cool" as the room was slowly becoming.
In fact, the angels were getting a little nippy. Soon, quarks combined in threes to produce protons and neutrons. With further cooling, atoms of deuterium started to form. Further collisions and cooling produced advanced elements, and these elements created molecules, and these molecules formed gasses, and gasses condensed to form solids.
Then, the angels witnessed God stick his finger on the table and do some stirring. After some time had passed, the table was filled with black holes. So many particles were rushing into those holes that the angels wondered whether the round would be over with a single stroke.
There were six stirs. The directions, velocities, and masses of particles were altered with each stir.
After the sixth stir, God announced to the angels, "My work here is done. Let nature takes its course. Observe and report when necessary."
As God left the room, the angels were left to wonder whether everything else on the table was now determined. The game seemed over, but the angels did not realize that the game was just in its initial stages.
The angels expected all the particles to disorganize, and most did. But, there were evolving pockets of energy and in some of those places matter became more complex. In one corner of the table there were dinosaurs. The angels gasped at those wonderful giants.
It seemed like an eternity, but the angels continued to watch. Eventually, nearly everything seemed to be swallowed into the black holes. Not much else was happening.
Then, just as all the excitement seemed to be lost, God walked into the room again.
"Rack 'em up," he ordered. "I want another round."
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7 comments:
Oh wow, I love it. Allegory, Humor, Truth, the minute differences in religious theology (Trinity, Godhead) overwhelmingly dismissed by religious truth (God fulfilling his purpose in creation) is shown in your essay in a very beautiful way.
I find evidence in your thinking in Jesus' message about Sin to the Pharisees in Matt. 23:24, "Ye Blind guides, which strain at a gnat (small sin), and swallow a camel (big sin)."
My interpretation replacing the message of sin with religious truth, "You blind guides, which strain at a small theological difference (gnat), and miss the big (camel) theological similarity, truth."
Thank you Dad for a great thought provoking, and a little risky (but paid off with the message you send), parable of creation in the context of scientific terminology!
Great work Dad.
Colin F. (Son#2)
This is just fabulous.
Thanks Elizabeth-W. I need all the encouragement I can get, especially when I try to be a little more creative than usual.
Thanks, I enjoyed reading that.
One question. When God created mankind, the crowning achievement of His creation, did He call the 8 ball in the corner pocket and intentionally shoot for that pocket, or did he just let the 8 ball roll around and randomly fall into any pocket?
Dave C:
Thanks for reading!!
I always enjoy your comments here and elsewhere, even when we see things differently.
The big question is: "How much does God get involved, or how much does He intervene?"
As Latter-days Saints, I think we must argue that God does intervene and there is purpose. Even so, I doubt science is capable of detecting it.
So, my answer to your creative question is this: God called the pocket, but (hardly) no one heard him, and the last ball (the 8) went into the hole just as planned, but the ball bounced off so many cushions that it looked random. But, it was an amazing shot.
S.Faux,
(Thanks)
I am willing to accept your explanation for God-mandated, theistic evolution; for all I know, it could be true. What concerns me is not the explanation itself, rather it's the apparent contradiction with the fundamental assumptions underlying evolution, namely unguided and random events.
I am arguing beyond mere appearances here. I am arguing at a level of ontological reality about how complex life truly came into existence.
When I hear an atheist like Dawkins say that evolution is atheistic at its core, and a theistic evolutionist like Francis Collins say that believing in an intentional God is compatible with evolution, I see red flags.
I would like to see theistic evolutionists acknowledge the subtle yet important differences between their theory and traditional neo-darwinism, rather than just say that their theology and darwinism are completely consistent. Why not branch out and forge a new understanding of the underlying mechanism driving the origins of species? Saying evolution is God-mandated is no less rigorous and metaphysical than saying it was undirected and random.
Anyway, the important thing is that we both agree on purposeful creation, notwithstanding our differences of opinion on the mechanism.
Dave C:
Again thanks for your provocative comments.
Maybe I am carrying my billiards metaphor too far, but once the cue ball has been struck does God really need to be all that involved?
I really reject your terms "unguided" and "random." Evolutionists (theistic or non-theistic) do NOT use those terms very often. Why? Because just about everything about evolution is guided and non-random given certain kinds of physical environments.
Please read about "parallel evolution." There are many examples of different species on different continents, with fundamentally different lineages, serving in the same basic niche, and evolving the same basic body forms.
Parallel evolution illustrates that general evolution is almost anything but unguided and random.
As for me, evolution is completely as neutral to the issue of God as gravity, atoms, grass, or tennis shoes. So, it does not matter to me what Dawkins says (I have his books) or what Collins says.
Take the equation E = MC-squared. Let's add God to the equation:
(E = MC-squared) X 1.
Please note the equation has NOT changed. (Sorry, my theory is that God is a multiplier of 1).
Adding God to evolution would NOT change it either.
Someone would really have to explain to me how God would change scientific hypotheses. I have never seen it in 30 years of professional work. I never expect to.
So, to me (and probably SteveP, although I don't mean to put words into his mouth), it makes no difference whether evolutionists are theists or non-theists, because we can still go to the same conferences and speak to one another using the same language.
Science and math is the art of explanation without resorting to the supernatural. Those forms of expression need to stay that way, even though the scientists themselves may or may not attend religious services.
Yes, I believe life has eternal purpose, but I learn that from Sunday School, not Darwinism. Thank goodness for Sunday School. And, while I am at it, thank goodness for Darwin too.
Let nature run its course. It does a pretty good job by itself.
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