Overlooking the Visible: Part 1

  Before there was anything anywhere at all, there was the Word. So, you must understand that the “beginning” that the first verse of Genesis speaks of is not the “beginning” of time as we know it, or the Word, Himself, but rather the “beginning” of the cosmos which we now inhabit. The Word was the Voice of God who was with God and existed as God. All the things that the Word made were made by the sound emanating from the Word—“Let there be”—after the Spirit of God moved or was in motion (Genesis 1:2-3).

   Only after the Word spoke—generated sound—did anything come into being that was not in being before the Word spoke. So, we must discuss what science has found to be the relationship between sound and first causes.

    To begin with, modern science acknowledges that every chemical atom is made up of particles of only one substance—the Original or Primary Substance—which seems to occupy all space-time. The specific identity of a given atom—whether it turns out to be iron, phosphorous, hydrogen, or some other substance—is a function of how many particles of negatively charged electricity revolve around a center of positively charged electricity, and the rate or speed at which they move. Thus, the number and speed of motion of these particles determine the nature and identity of the specific atom they form.

   Modern science also acknowledges that all material substance—inanimate matter as well as animate matter—has no inherent qualities or characteristics that distinguish one part of this Original Primary Substance from any other part of it. This is extremely significant. Out of this undifferentiated (all the same) Substance, particles are produced that are different from the very Substance that produced them. Their specific difference is that they possess negatively and positively charged energy.

   What I have just discussed is an electronic theory that explains how all matter has evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. However, this theory does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came. It is here that the Universal Law of Cause and Effect comes in.

   The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect—whether motion, release of energy, a tree growing, or rain falling—there is a cause. Science is quite clear that living things can only come from—be caused by—living things. Only Life can give birth to life. Science is also clear that if anything is moving—whether that thing is animate or inanimate—its movement has been caused by someone or something.

   At the beginning of creation, the Original Cause of all things was the Intelligent Spirit: God. What He used to set all things in motion was the creative process.

   Science understands that sound is transmitted through waves. Technically, in physics, mathematics, and related fields, a wave is a disturbance—a change from a resting value—of one or more fields (physical quantities, represented by numbers that have a value for each point in space-time) such that the field values oscillate repeatedly about a stable resting value. So much for our technical discussion of waves because we are concerned only with what causes these vibrations or waves, and we now know that sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it.