When God created the world, He created a universe with laws, rules and principle that govern how the parts of it function. As a physicist I work with the physical laws, rules and principles almost daily. They allow the universe to carry on without external input or control: electrons are attracted to the positive nucleus in an atom, yet the strong force can keep all the positive protons in a nucleus together. Bees can pollinate flowers, flowers can then produce fruit and seeds to propagate new plants Water can evaporate at low enough temperatures to form clouds and rain, but be mostly liquid at ambient temperatures so that we have flowing rivers and lakes. Frozen water unusually has a lower density than liquid water, otherwise the animal life in freezing lakes and rivers would never survive the winter. Gravity works over unimaginably great distances to keep solar systems and galaxies together, but can be countered by the outward force caused by nuclear reactions inside stars to keep them “burning” for millions of years. We take these physical universal principles for granted, we don’t consider that gravity works the same way every time a ball is thrown or that delocalised electrons in a conducting metal can move every time a light is turned on.
Our universe also has non-physical principles that are probably just as fundamental and that are present in our every day lives without us taking cognizance of them most of the time. I wonder if when God created the universe if He considered the physical and non-physical rules, laws and principles as separate and different from each other. Was gravity just as fundamental in creating the universe to Him as the principle sowing and reaping? For that matter, should we now see them as any less irrefutable parts of existence in this universe? If someone would argue that they do not believe in gravity, and drop a vase, would gravity still do its thing regardless of that person’s belief? If that person also does not believe in the principle that you will sow what you reap, what will that person reap if they sow hate and destruction or if they sow love, kindness and generosity? The one can surely not be any more or less dependent on our belief in it, than the other.
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