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I recently wrote about the quantum singularity that, it seems, defined the probability of the Big Bang. Singularities collapse when they are observed and so the question is, who observed the Big Bang?
It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that God was the observer. The implications of this for the inflated egos of some Christians is something to be avoided. Proving God is a preoccupation for those Christians who find faith difficult and so have to bolster it with a dose of triumphalism to help God along in God's relationship with humanity.
This view of God as all powerful is immensely damaging. It feeds the egos of church hierarchies and anyone who believes the most important thing is to be right.
There are, as I said in the post (link above), other interpretations of quantum mechanics where an observer is not needed. As ever we are not dealing with certainties.
There is of course another option. Someone else observed the singularity who is not God. Of course, there is only one known possibility and that is humanity.
We know humanity has observed evidence of the Big Bang (not the actual event obviously). Remember Schroedinger's cat; we don't see it die, it is both alive and dead until it is observed.
What if over all the millions of years before humanity, the universe was in a state of neither existing nor not existing? Until humanity appeared on the scene, aware of their own existence and of the universe around them.
The universe becomes real as we become aware that it is real. The universe is a construct of human consciousness. We know that. Our senses and brains strip out most of the information available to us. We depend on this for survival. The world we perceive is constructed by our brains. There is, of course, a reality we have in common, something we perceive and are able to agree about, otherwise science would not be possible at all.
The Christian story is a story of God becoming human. We call this incarnation. This human being was murdered and rose from the dead, ascending into heaven. So the story goes. The Body of Christ is the incarnation of God in humanity today.
Maybe one way of thinking of it is the story of the universe as the story of the birth of God into the world. This is a God who becomes self-aware though humanity. Not a God on high but a God who lives as a part of the universe, seeing through our eyes, exploring through our feet and loving through our hands.
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