Hi. I’m Kent. I’m a life-long physics and biology student, researcher, enthusiast, wanna-be-teacher, and, for the last couple of decades, a “you don’t have to check your brain at the Church door” evangelist. As a scientist, yet former atheist, I don’t claim this lightly. Please see the “My Story” [coming soon] menu item to learn more about, well …my story.
Summarizing from said story, I, as an atheist, knew nothing, absolutely zilch, about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, or Bible, and basically believed all of this “religiosity” was for the comfort of those that just couldn’t accept the finality of death (to put it bluntly). I did make this personal claim based on hear-say, I’ll admit. I had tried reading the Bible once or twice, but soon got lost in all the imagery and “begats” of Genesis. Likewise, I sneaked a peek at Revelation, at the end of the bible. Yeah, I wanted to see how it all turned out. Why not cut to the chase, right? But seriously, if Genesis blows your mind reading for comprehension, Revelation is a imagery-driven H-bomb.
But, that all changed for me. As I mentioned, not knowing anything about this whole Jesus thing, I can say, truly, God “summoned” me. I was drawn to a church I had visited 2-3 times via invitation. On my first visit, I honestly thought, to myself, of course, “These people were out of their ever-lovin’ minds!”. In addition, I was somewhat uncomfortable with a few of the things they said and did. Yet, a few weeks hence, I was compelled, in a stronger way than I could possible convey here, to “come”. To just come to Him, dispel all former beliefs, and “give Him a chance”. I’ll add, this was not a compelling by someone, as in another human. This was an internal beckoning, that, all I knew at the time, was not “me”, but something else. I would answer. Finding myself standing before an altar, I surrendered. And, in my surrender, the Holy Spirit entered my very being. Dumbfounded, yet keenly aware that this was “not me”, after this ultimately indescribable event, THE defining event of my life, my creator personally approached and introduced himself.
I guess you could call this my “Saul” experience, if you are familiar with Saul’s sudden, intervening encounter with Jesus on the Damascus road. Saul, who once condemned and put Christians to death, on his very way to condemn more, changed so drastically and suddenly with his encounter with ascended Jesus, he received a new name: Paul. So far, I still go by Kent.
Afterwords, I came to that point of reconciliation, where I had to combine what I knew as a scientist and what I was now introduced to by my very creator. Of course, after my acceptance of the Holy Spirit, The Bible vehemently compelled me. As I started reading, keeping in mind all my previous academic studies, I thought “this isn’t going to go well”. Admittedly, as a brand new, very green believer, nothing really made sense, at first. The Bible, it turns out, really demands that you know the context. To truly understand, one needs to know the history of each book, the author and his goal, and the target audience. Sometimes the target is one of the 12 churches, on a particular order of things. Sometimes, it’s a whole subset of Earth dwellers (gentiles, for instance). Understanding this, I started my study of the Bible as I would any other discipline, I wanted to know the subject thoroughly.
Sort-of-long-story cut a little shorter, I opened The Bible.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
In verse 1 and 2, there are some deep concepts in physics, the “creation epochs” in which we describe, based on data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) mostly, how we have dug back to 10 to the -43 seconds (Planck time) after the big bang initially “banged”, giving us a good picture of how forces, energy, and matter interacted. These concepts are mirrored in verse two’s “void” and it’s subsequent filling at the beginning of creation. But, I digress, because this wasn’t the most intriguing passage. In Genesis 1 verse 3 we have God stating “Let there be light“. After further biblical study, I came to understand this phrase includes the spiritual light of God, as well as the light (photons) we perceive in the natural world Indeed, we observe His attributes in creation. After arriving just to the end of verse 3, the 3rd sentence of this “mythical book”, Light…photons, the bosonic mediator of the electromagnetic force, form the basis of our very reality.
Most folks, who don’t contemplate light day-to-day, think only of visible light wavelengths when contemplating this basic concept. But to physics folks, we know that photons are the mediator of the electromagnetic force. It’s not only what makes reality “see-able”, but the interactions of repulsing negatively charged electrons via the electro-photonic field is what gives our reality “substance”. It’s where the rubber meets the road. It’s what makes matter tangible. It’s why a rock is hard. It’s what keeps you from falling through the Earth to it’s very core.
Another amazing attribute – Light leaving, for instance, the Sun, from our perspective, takes approximately 8 and-a-half minutes to arrive at Earth. From the vantage point of light itself, the “trip” was instantaneous. The same applies to light reaching us from 13 billion light years away. The photons themselves do not experience the passage of time. As Einstein taught us with E=mc2, from the vantage point of light, all events in the universe happened, are happening, and will happen all at the same time. Light, from it’s own perspective, is truly outside of time. As above, so below. Shortly, in another area of this site, we’ll expand this idea to other attributes, but that’s beyond the scope of this introduction.
Now, here I sit, four verses in, already seeing exactly what I would expect if God had truly created the reality we, as scientists, so desperately and clumsily attempt to reverse engineer. So, we’re off to a good start. A truthful start. But, could this also be a coincidence? Maybe the Bible just accidentally nailed a description of reality that fits what we currently think we know? Even after such a positive start, I wasn’t that optimistic the pattern would continue.
Over the next decade and a half, I would be proven wrong. Absolutely wrong.
This site is dedicated to that journey. Taking true science, and true translation of what we see in the physical world, held up against The Word and it’s truths. I encourage you to have an open mind, dispel all the “god speak” you’ve heard, and honestly contemplate the truth God is revealing.
I hope you find it as intriguing as I. Godspeed.
~Kent