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Deep Thoughts or Daft Ideas? Part V

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All the known sub-atomic particles and force carriers – the fundamental stuff of the universe.

These are the things I know and surmise about quantum physics. It’s not much, I’ll admit, but it is elemental and well sourced. The fact that physicists often refer to the Higgs Boson as the “god particle” is kind of a leaping off point for me. The fact that light sometimes behaves like a stream of particles and sometimes behaves like a wave is another. Theoretical physics can be as opaque, confusing, and malleable as theology if you dig deep enough. As I like to say, since God is the author of religion and of the laws of nature that are the subject of science, whenever science and religion seem to disagree, either the science is incomplete or the religion has been wrongly interpreted.

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Deep Thoughts or Daft Ideas? Part II

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Some Thoughts on the Trinity

(I made the mistake of deciding to check my work before I published. Not that the checking itself was a mistake, far from it, but the notion that I could do it quickly and without a lot of head-scratching and ponderments may have been. This is difficult stuff to grasp, and when I went to the early Church Fathers: Augustine, St. John of the Cross, Origen, Hilary, Ambrose, and others for guidance, although I found a wealth of wisdom and depth of analysis, a lot of it is about as interesting to read as tax code. It’s taken a lot longer than I thought it would, and I’m beginning to wonder if theoretical physics, particle mechanics, and string theory are going to be any easier. Plus, it’s just damn difficult to make this breezy, humorous, and irreverent as is my usual style . Bear with me.)

I’m going to start with some thoughts on the Trinity. I’ve been thinking about this stuff for a long time. It resonates for me. It makes sense to me, although it may not make the same kind of sense to you. I accept this. I already know from whence some of the arguments against what I have to say are going to come.

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