Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Art of Science and Religion

No one counts the seconds between drops of water from a steady drip to realize that they appear random at first and then become periodic but remain just as random. No one considers that a random number generator on a computer is not truly random. Few people understand that break pads or rather the discs they are on (rotors?) heat up in a non-uniform way. Such that hot spots form on one side of the disc and not the other when spun circularly. No one looks at the spot on Jupiter or Earth's air currents to realize that the semi-spontaneous formation of hurricanes and storm systems depend on the initial conditions. Conditions so small that it can arise out of the flap of a butterfly wing in China. Oh, how I could be changing the world by merely typing this blog entry. At the same time, there are strange attractors in Chaos. Sometimes, it doesn't matter what the initial conditions are. One will always get the same result from the system. Chaos is such a strange thing. Entropy is stranger still.


Sin and grace are very much like chaos in this chaotic world. Sin will always drag one to a single place with its corruption, hell. Yet, Grace is like the hurricane. It abounds such that mighty kingdoms are destroy by a single act 2000 years ago. Even the smartest scientist is but an artist when it comes to these things. The equations don't do it justice. They break down due to their lack of accuracy. Science can't hope to explain God when scientists can't even explain all the things around them by numbers.

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