Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2

Agency of all that matters

            Images, of now, in time, examined by five senses
change when science lifts the edges of perception
and we see what used to be legend laid bare 
by numbers and their manipulation. 
            The flat earth, center of all starlight, gave way,
not easily, to a rather indescript normal planet,
one of a billion or so just in our galaxy 
not really round but lumpy. 
            The idea of time had been set until Einstein 
stretched it into a, sort of, dough, 
with space as leavening that took a long time to cook,
though still bent easily, and was more malleable
than most would want in an absolute law. 
            Two trains of thought have been bumping into each other
and then collide with another, leaving me 
picking through the wreckage, leaving these few conclusions.
            1. Moses saw the beginning and the end as one vision,
therefore the element of time must have been suspended.
            2. God said, “Let there be light,” and a release of energy
large enough to create the universe denied any rule,
but left the universe to its own agency, 
which it did in creating time, space, and matter,
which we can sense with our five senses. 
            3. Moses, the creation, and string theory 
seem to combine and let us see 
the different dimension 
having different laws of physics than our own.
Apparently the casual effect of the creation
was out of our sense of time or space, 
so must have been either left to its own devices 
or shepherded by the power that created it. 
            4. The idea of agency and a dimension 
free of time, space or, for us, normal rules of physics,
shown to Moses then explained to the people of his time
in any sort of language they could understand, 
creates an image of Celestial existence 
in the terms of Telestial understanding. 
            5. There is no argument between science 
and religion. There is just, like the flat earth, 
a lack of understanding. As both sides disapprove 
of the other they lose the chance of furthering 
the knowledge that communion could bring. 
            In conclusion: The beginning came from a place 
that had no limits and formed space-time 
with strict rules, and all will end in a singularity 
which suspends all the rules again. 
Both religion and science agree on this 
and should find more and better common ground.