Originally posted by Duane Morse
Tenek wrote "Somehow I don't think that God is going to create a universe so flawed that it needs His constant, omnipresent intervention to avoid completely dissolving."
Maybe it is not a flawed universe that needs His constant, omnipresent intervention. Maybe the universe exist BECAUSE of His constant presence.
And speaking of dissolving atoms, what do you think can bring it about?
Is it possible that at some point in the future they will dissolve? The Bible says it will happen. Poof, no more stars.
Isaiah 34:4 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Should be quite a sight. I can't wait to see it. I picture it as multi-colored streams of energy falling to the earth, which is then the only source of gravity at the center of a dissolved universe.
Interesting thing that was discovered recently. The Alpha fine-structure constant is not so constant after all. It has measurably changed over the past 6 billion years or so. I wonder how far it has to go before the fine tuning is too far out of wack and the atoms dissolve?