I’ve been reading a little of this over the weekend:
Google’s Time Crystal Discovery Is So Big, We Can’t Fully Understand It.
Read that headline again.
I read such things because I love science. I miss studying engineering and especially physics.
Honestly, as I read things like this, I realize how much I never knew, how much I’ve forgotten, and how much I’ll never know.
I find the idea of “time crystals” amazing.
In addition to my amazement regarding time crystals, I’m amazed by how many things we take by faith – and how many things we refuse to take by faith.
I have read a lot on Reddit – a lot from atheists – and I repeatedly find them “loving on science”. I get that. Remember, I studied electrical engineering at the university. I love science. But there is a vocal subset of people who love science and hate religion. One of their stated reasons is that they can’t trust that which requires faith. They want empirical proof.
Yet, most people reading about time crystals will merely understand them from a layman’s perspective – the perspective of the same physics course I took. Then they will walk away as clueless as I.
Some will admit it.
Some will not.
Most people won’t even have the physics classes to think back to. Yet they will “believe in” time crystals.
Not sure?
Think back to the headline of the news article. “…so big we can’t fully understand it.”
We won’t understand it but we’ll believe it. Without comprehensible empirical evidence, we will accept the existence of Google’s time crystals.
Such is the essence of faith.
This quality of humans – this ability to trust – is what makes much of Christian faith believable. We don’t fully understand the hypostatic union, the triune nature of God, or the mystery of concurrence any better than we understand time crystals.
So faith becomes, among other things, a simple decision.
For me, I trust the physicists and the biblical writers.
Doing so causes me joy as I stand in wonder at endless scientific discoveries and kneel in reverence to the One who made it all.