Christian relativity

Jeff Wilson · 08 Apr 2006, 06:55 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:55:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) Christian relativity
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Stanislaus wrote:

> Hello nastler,
> 
> Friday, April 7, 2006, 3:33:28 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Quote suggesting one reason a Christian author might
>>wish to write a universe without relativity. The time
>>scales in the Sun series are extended, but the
>>principle holds. The "news" cannot have spread through
>>the universe without bypassing physics as we know it.
> 
> 
> Check Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen theory and experiments. It has been
> conclusively proven that news can spread instanteously, perhaps even
> backward in time - but only for the internal purposes of the universe.
> You cannot transmit information faster than light. Universe can.

There's no meaningful distinction between "you" and a subset of 
"universe" in current physical thought.

There's also no need to restrict news of the Christian Gospel to 
post-crucifixion time in religious thought; Christ not only shares in 
the eternal quality of Gd, but was personally present at the Creation 
and it was only His mortal incarnation for the benefit of the earth that 
  began in Bethlehem. The Scriptures is silent on whether there are any 
extraterrestrial sinners in need of salvation; if their existence can be 
reconciled, so can other appearances of Christ, and they would no more 
violate relativity than the Hubble expansion does.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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