... II. The Framework ...

values paradoxes

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthy house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
II Corinthians 4:18-5:1

Eternity and Time

Question: What is faster than the speed of light?

Answer: The human mind, for it can travel from breakfast to a far galaxy and back to the kitchen table in the blink of an eye, all while reading a newspaper article about a newly identified quasar.

Religion has always dwelt on the eternal, or on that which can not be measured by a scientific instrument. In this sense, religion relates to eternity.

Science is based on repeatable measurements and on-going monitoring. In this sense, science relates to time, and to changes over time.

Possibly by relegating the eternal to religion and measured time to science, abutments for a bridge across the gap between science and religion can be established. This is a paradox, for religion is most closely related to God’s interaction with man in the here and now, and scientists measure times which are an eternity when compared to the length of a human lifetime.

Astrophysicists using the Hubble telescope, or chemists working with radioactive isotopes, can accurately and repeatedly measure a very long or very short times: billions of years, or billionths of a second. Compared to a human lifetime or a human heartbeat, these measurements are an eternity.

However, a physicist has yet to perform an experiment to prove “man is spirit, the elements are eternal, and spirit and elements, inseparably connected, receive a fullness of joy; and when separated, man cannot receive a fullness of joy.” This is presented as a religious statement of fact in the Doctrine & Covenants, a scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.2.15 This is a concept first accepted o faith, and as one watches the joy of children and grandchildren, the truthfulness of this statement is burned into our soul and recognized as truth by a burning in our heart.



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