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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan
Given the constraints outlined by William of Occam, I'm wondering if the Multi-Universe theory stretches the complexity here and that Quantum Mechanics might be more productive. Consider the famous double-slit experiment, and particularly how the collapse of the probability wave can yield multiple outcomes and yet still be consistent. Add to that, we now know that Bell's Theorem has been verified and that the universe is non-local - permitting a quantum entanglement with the will of Jesus.
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I always see Bell as someone who was an idiot and simply reinvented the wheel. Basically, Bell said that there are things we can never know and although we like to think that doing one action will always result in a given result, in all truth, what happens is that on some occasions it doesn’t.
The reason behind this is what atheists and scientist (who, if they are not Biblical scientists, are the same thing) call “probability” and “uncertainty” that arises out of a combination of unknowns.
It will be patently obvious to even the weakest Christian that Bell stole the earlier Christian Truth that things will continue to be themselves unless God intervenes*. God intervenes because God has Mysteries. We do not know why God has Mysteries – that is the “Overarching Mystery.” The subset of Mysteries, when they are observed in action, are called “Miracles” although so-called scientists would have you call them “the effects of quantum uncertainties”.
For example: Christ turns wine into water – normally, we expect water to remain water because that is God’s general rule* - and normally, it does. But then God, for whatever reason, simply intervenes and wine becomes something else. We cannot know why or when God might intervene but we can observe that intervention after the event.
My point here is that the water turns to wine in real time. And, like Schrödinger's cat, it was in a state of superposition of being simultaneously wine and being water at any time up until the time that the guest drank it.
And so, we have such Mysteries as Matthew saying Jesus’s birth was in the reign of Herod
(and that there must have been two years left of that reign to account for the Massacre of the Innocents’) so c. 6 BC or – Luke 3 - during Quirinius’s census 6 AD. Both are true.
If both are true, the Bible is true – and it is. In layman’s terms, Jesus was being born either in 6 BC or 6 AD
(and this is an easy mistake to make, especially as before Jesus people counted backwards.) but both are true until observed and the net result is the same for Salvation and the wedding guests – we are Saved and the wedding guests get wine. Neither is “more remarkable" and both are “probable”. If both are probable then we cannot deny that they are possible, and if they are possible, then, as God said it, then we can accept that this happened.
The conclusion is that we should never bother about the superposition of Jesus at any one time – He is God and we can never understand Him. We must therefore accept – but, in the world that He has created, a world of quantum physics, this is the correct answer – there are, indeed, Mysteries.
*Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory,
for ever and ever.”