Membrane Theory

I watched a show on the Science Channel about Membrane Theory.  The very foundation of it says that there are 11 dimensions.  This is obviously far beyond Einstein’s 4 dimensions (forward/back, left/right, up/down, & time), or even the 5 dimensions (forward/back, left/right, up/down, time, and special movement).  Both theories are easy to grasp a hold of and understand, but eleven?  Are you serious?  This Membrane Theory takes physics well beyond String Theory, which is only a mere component.  Membrane Theory postulates that in the eleventh dimension, there are these membranes of energy (this is well beyond the sub-atomic level).  They can take different shapes: donut, donut holes, circular, cylindrical, and so on.  They can interact with each other. bumping into one another, moving through one another.  These different membranes might each adhere to it’s own Laws of Physics.  So, the laws that govern our reality may not govern that of another membrane.  For example, in another membrane, the proton may not be positively charged, and therefore not aid in holding together matter, and therefore not be able to sustain intelligent life.  Or, another might only be comprised of light, or another of anti-mater (thus, alternate universe(s)).  The physicists further consider what could happen if these membranes collide.  Just think about it for a minute, what would happen?  They can apply this theory to the big bang.  They theorize that certain membranes collided to form this intense molecular explosion, and the by-product was matter -which then went on to form universe.  This is really an exciting concept for science, and should be even more exciting to the people that believe in the creation story.  To me, this shows me more of God and his creativity in creation than I ever considered before.

Nowhere in the creation account does it describe the creation of the universe or of time and space.  It only directly addresses the creation of the earth, of man, animals and so on (of this particular reality).  So, why, in eternity past, couldn’t God do something that had the effect of the big bang and use that singular event as the catalyst to create the rest of the universe?  Why couldn’t there be 11 dimensions as this Membrane Theory proposes?  I say to you what God said to Job:  

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?  Tell me, if you know so much” (Job 38:4)

We weren’t present when He created the world.  Were we then present when He created mater and anti-mater, time and space?  Are we so bold, so base to say that we know how God did things?  If you can answer this in the definitive, then I give you the same warning that God gave Job:

“Then the Lord said to Job, Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?” (Job 40:1-2)

All I know is this; I am not afforded the room to be so dogmatic about the things that I have not seen nor experienced.  I have seen the living God and have experienced his touch in my life.  That, I can talk about.  However, I cannot say that unequivocally, and without a doubt, the Creation account is the only way God brought things into existence.  Nor can I say the same of the Big Bang account.  Therefore, why can’t there be a melding of the two?  Why can’t science (which, by the way began with the church so long ago – to prove the existence of God) and the Bible both be right?  Furthermore, aren’t there bigger issues that are more important?  Issues that Christ himself was more concerned with?  Like feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and bringing salvation to the lost?  Sure, the beginning of existence is an interesting thing to debate, but, while people on both sides debate, thousands of people across the country and over the globe are going hungry and are given over to disease. 

This article was not written to debate the creation of existence, but merely to point out that there are a lot of theories out there and the know-it-all Christian doesn’t have all the answers.  He/she can’t.  It’s impossible.  Or, need I remind you of the passages you’ve just read from Job?

~ by cjbarton on July 25, 2007.