[0] At the end of this article, I give the link to my final personal statement that gives a complete scientific and Scriptural solution to all of the post-Flood controversies.[1] (My basic reference continues to be the book 1. Note: As defined in that book, the term "natural" almost always refers to "physical." Also, the phrase "rather sudden" is used in some cases, where entities may not appear instantaneously, but rather they might occur over an unknown period of Earth-time during a specific creation-day or they are produced over a comparatively "very small" Earth-time interval.) In determining an appropriate theological cosmology, I adhere strictly to the follow requirement. A literal interpretation of the Scriptures must come first. A cosmology must then be chosen that most closely verifies the rationality of this interpretation. Under no circumstances do I first construct a cosmology and then re-interpret or even ignore portions of the Scriptures and then force the Scriptures to conform to this cosmology.
At the present time, I believe that it is likely that the general procedure used to realize (1. p. 196, 235) specific entities within our universe is the "mature and functional form" scenario that follows the scheme as briefly described within the "general scenario" section on pages 193-210. Any scenario I accept is strongly coupled to the lack of knowledge scenario discussed in section 12 in the A U-cosmology paper and mentioned numerously many times in the book. I accept as scientific fact this additional lack of knowledge scenario. (Note: As indicated in "First Revision Typographical Variations or Errors," you probably should change the "creation day" for star creation from day-three to day-four, a more probably creation-day for stated day-four events.)
I mention, in the book, that exactly what the notion of expanding, stretching or unfolding means might require new knowledge. The fact is we do have new knowledge. The firmament (an interface for the heavens) is but a portion of subparticle substratum that God created. It is used to realize all physical entities and physical-system alterations in behavior. There are many references in the Bible that indicate that the firmament expands or stretches, along with the boundary, if the cosmology uses the expansion and boundary notion. It is a predicted notion and its verified predictions yield indirect evidence for its existence. Some of its properties are the following:
(1) Compared to our physical-world notion of "density," this firmament is composed of an infinitely dense collection of ultrasubparticles, the (GGU-model) field. You can remove all of the ultrasubparticles needed to form even an infinite cosmos from this field and the field remains infinitely dense. It is an interface and yields, when activated, a realized physical-world.Since this firmament is always substratum controlled and due to ultranatural laws and theories, I am convinced that any humanly constructed cosmology that purports to explain how our universe developed from some type of primitive material will always contain anomalies that cannot be accounted for.(2) This field as a basic entity is NOT defined in any geometric manner. Geometric language only applies when physical realization is being considered. This firmament can be considered as "spread out" or "stretched out" from a central position near to what would become the Earth and its local environment (R). Or, it can be stretched out as viewed from each physical point. (This field property is discussed in the note at the end of this article.)
(3) This subparticle field yields all realized physical entities and alternations in physical-system behavior.
(4) In 2, various "physical metrics" are derived using only a light propagation theory. These physical metrics also satisfy the Hilbert-Einstein gravitational field equations. Within each of these metrics is an additional parameter d. Depending upon the application, this d corresponds to the "speed" of expansion. If our universe is not expanding, then d = 0. (Expansion does not mean "local" movement. And, depending upon the cosmology d need not be the "measured" expansion rate.) This d can also be used for an accelerated expansion if such should be the case. No "dark energy" is needed for this to occur. In its complex form, d can represent a contraction rather than an expansion of the field if that should ever be the case.
(5) As stated above in (3), there are different modes for material expansion. For example, the expansion of all physical entities relative to the "center" can occur. But, gravitationally bounded entities can appear to be "moving away" from the center as an entire entity. There is a quantum field theory "the quintessence model" that allows many different modes of expansion to occur.
(6) Among other possibilities, the expansion can occur in a continuous manner or a discontinuous manner at any moment in primitive time.
(7) As stated in Genesis 1:6, a geometric notion is now attached to the firmament description. The term is "midst" as there used. The phrase where midst is used only yields an approximate "center" from where the firmament expands. As discussed in the note at the end of this article, this center can either be a single point from which expansion occurs or only an apparent point as viewed from the "waters below." Using other mathematical characteristics, any such expansion does not affect the field's density.
(8) These properties indicate some of the designed features for this firmament and they are all obtained via mathematical reasoning. Hence, such a firmament is intelligently designed.
For this application of the GGU-model, assume that an "expansion" is occurring. A cosmology that is realized from this firmament must mirror the information contained within members of the event sequences. Hence, natural world evidence must first be incorporated within the event sequences, and the evidence would show that such a "central" expansion is taking place. This can either be apparent motion or an actual motion of certain objects as they are observed from our approximate center of expansion. For an actual motion which today is usually assumed, the expansion is caused by a type of expansion of the subparticle field.
Does the operative phrase "And God Said, Let there be lights in the firmament . . . . " refer to the stars, as well as the stated "sun" and "moon"? It seems that two other Scriptural witnesses indicate this. First, Genesis 1:14 states that these "lights" are to "divide the day from the night." What lights yield the "night" division? Two other witnesses yield "The moon and stars to rule by night:" (Psalms 136:9) and ". . . the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, . . ." The phrase in Genesis 1:16 "he made the stars also" is not as it appears in the LXX. This may be an interpreter's attempt to make the phrase "parenthetical." The actual rendering should simply be "and the stars" as it is coupled with the previous "made." Thus, the "good (excellent, best)," in Genesis 1:18, refers to the external universe as well. This would require such an external universe to appear to satisfy various "natural laws" that are distinct from those associated with R and, for consistency, it should be realized during day-four. Although the external universe is hostile to life-forms, the term "good" refers to the various useful aspects of the external universe as described in Genesis 1:14-18 and elsewhere. The term "good" does not refer to any effects this hostile environment might have upon created humanity since mankind was not created originally to inhabit such an environment. Their environment was the original Earth and, especially, the Garden of Eden where perceived natural regulations would be different from those of the exterior universe. However, this hostile environment can be humanity's abode if humans so chose it through their actions. This hostel environment contains a covirtual ancient earth, with its local environment, that has not been realized, yet.
[2] Event sequences produce entities and behavioral changes within nay physical-system anywhere within a universe. This includes the entire universe considered as a physical-system. Such behavior can take any period of observer time. If there is an observer time history, event sequences can repeat this history, or can even reverse the history relative to observer time.
The following adds slightly to my selection using the Rapid Formation Model (RFM). First, I repeat the DVD-illustration description. Since this is a pre-designed universe, there is a location relative to all objects within the universe, where an ancient earth (defined below) and its local environment develop. As pointed out in the article on GGU-model processes, not all locations within a universe need to be realized at each moment in primitive time. This happens here. As the universe develops, the original Earth and its local environment in region R is not altered in any manner during the RFM process and, after this and until after the Flood, behavior in R is altered under its our set of physical laws. So as to not have two objects occupy the same space, those aspects of the developing universe's physical laws that occur in R region are simply not realized. They appear to continue to develop but in non-realized form.It is significant that the RFM is independent from a choice of a universe external to the original R. I consider viewing this process from "outside" the universe as a simplified depiction. For the specific DVD illustration, the region R appears to be in suspended animation, while an entire universe develops. This is accomplished by repeating those portions of this region's frozen-frames. (See "Science Declares . . . " p. 109.) Although R is not altered, to enhance the special significance of R, the Genesis event sequence yields a universe that appears to be developing around R. The apparent suspended animation ceases at any chosen moment in the development of the surrounding universe. The RFM produces many distinct cosmologies exterior to R. With respect to todays accepted physical laws and the cosmology selected, such a development would appear to occurr over vast periods of present day earth-time. "Eternal" cosmologies are included where "vast" is potentially infinite.
Of Biblical significance is that when a particular physical event E(t+1) is realized, the "previous" event E(t) is not lost but becomes a member of what is best understood as a "history" event sequence. This yields a strict interpretation of various Biblical statements. For God's creationary activities, consider the rather poetic Psalm 148. Verse four states "Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens . . . ." Some have concluded that these are the original waters of Gen 1:7 and that they still exist in materialistic realized form and, thus, could not be the special rarefied layer that I accept. But it also states that "for he commanded and they were created. He has also established them for ever and ever. . . ." This poetic Psalm indicates that God should be praised for all entities that He has created. These exist in both realized and unrealized form. Thus, the rarefied waters that I accept and everything else that is realized in the past still exist but in unrealized form. A realized universe corresponds to one and only one moment in observer time.
To be consistent with Revelations, the remotest but bounded time is needed. I am aware that the Hebrew time notion allows for an unbounded time notion as will as a vast future time that is bounded. In either case, this model does take into account the past tense interpretation and that the original rarefied water layer does exist "for ever and ever" in the history event sequence, using either time notion. The history event sequence includes all of the behavior displayed by each human being. It is a significant event sequence for Rev. 20:12-13.
How rapidly an external entity is formed is related to how R is viewed via Earth-time, a restriction of observer time. For the a developing universe, in order to make a comparison, an Earth-time measure is used to measure the external universe's time-development. Altering the period of suspended animation, this time development can occur over any day-four time-interval. The maximum suspended animation model corresponds to a zero-length interval of Earth-time. The notion of "formation" always refers to the formation of realized physical entities and, possibly, other preternatural physical-like entities that are realzied but are not part of the defined material universe. For a specific comsology, the physical entities that are rapidly formed need to be defined.
Recall that moments in observer time do correspond to moments in sequential (primitive) time. A developing unrealized external universe can "start" at any moment in sequential "time." Starting entities can be at various levels of maturity and functionality. There are two significant realization possibilities. Realization can occur at the "starting" point of the sequence. Or, realization and development can "start" at some other sequential point. And, as mentioned above, the development of the realized external universe can occur over a zero-length interval of observer time or over a nonzero interval of observer time. I have chosen the zero-length Earth-time interval.
Due to the lack of Biblical guidance and the "lack of knowledge" aspects of the GGU-model, the following statement is my present stance. "I have no direct knowledge as to the moment, in its development, when the evolving external universe was 'first' realized materially. However, whatever the case may be, I accept the rapid formation mode during day-four over a zero-interval of Earth-time." There are different secular and theological cosmologies that claim to produce all of our present day observable data. Hence, a selection of any one of these must be based upon other concerns not associated with their scientific merit.
Obviously, I am more likely to accept one of these cosmologies if it does not contradict the Scriptures and observationally satisfies Rom 1:20. My personal requirement for an external universe is that such an external universe indirectly reveals some of God's "invisible" attributes. It indirectly reveals His higher-intelligence via the GID-model interpretation. It reveals, via the fine-tuning of various parameters, that our universe is especially created to harbor protected human life. It reveals His great concern for various created entities. Although we no longer inhabit the original Earth, our present-day earth is still protected from much of the external universe's destructive influences. Further, the cosmology is consistent with our specially selected location within our home galaxy, a location from which we can observe the wonders of His creation.
To include the fact that biological entities can participate in such a development after it reaches some moment, say 6,000 years ago, other notions, as discussed in my book, are needed. Also, all such universes do exist in the "mind of God" so to speak. But, they are not physically realized until called forth. For this model, this means that God knows the past, present, and future. Does any other mathematically based creationary model include this necessary aspect for His creation?
For me, one intent of the Genesis 1 descriptions is to imply that the physical laws for the Earth and its local environment as created prior to the "stars" were different from some we observe today. That is, the original Earth with its local environment is specially created to be different from a created and hostile exterior universe that would "appear" during day-four. My application of RFM to Genesis 1 does not alter the Genesis 1 creation-day numerical ordering where different physical laws than observed today first emerge. Moreover, using this ordering, the original R-Genesis 1 environment is created in mature and functional form. Using Earth-time, after the Sun and Moon appear, then the "stars" are created. During star-creation is when various physical laws external to R, which we comprehend, first emerged.
Hence, in general, the universe exterior to R is produced by rapid-formation using any cosmology that satisfies present-day observations coupled with an unrealized region R development. Relative to the Earth-time, much of the external universe can also appear in mature and functional form. Such an "appearance" depends upon the cosmology chosen and how the realization operator is applied. At the end of day-four and as partially indicated in Genesis 3:15-19, the Earth with its local environment develops, through the Fall and the Flood, via physical laws that differ from those displayed by the hostile external universe. There are event sequences where the Earth and its local environment are formed in the proper Genesis 1 ordering and the entire external universe is formed by rapid formation over a zero-length Earth-time interval. This concludes my basic description. Below I give a few more details.
Should we choose a developing external universe that parallels His basic mode of creation by means of sudden or rather sudden appearance or select some "evolutionary" type of construction that begins with elementary entities that develop into more complex ones? One of the original approaches that strongly implies God's "power" and that is consistent with the Bible's description for His creationary methods is the in-transit information approach. By this process our universe is physically realized suddenly at a moment in sequential time that corresponds to a day-four Earth-time moment. The universe is fully developed and corresponds to its appearance approximately 6,000 years ago. It "pops" into existence from the expanding substratum. It is formed over what "appears to be" a zero Earth-time interval. But, it does not require the portion of each frozen-frame that contains R to be repeated while the external universe develops.
The phrase "in-transit information" means that since all of the information we obtain about the external universe is relative to the past and not the present, then, although most past events did not actually occur in physically realized forms, information about such events exists in the suddenly appearing photons or material objects propagating throughout the cosmos. Some individuals claim that this is a form of deception on God's part. However, for the in-transit information model all of the in-transit information does exist in unrealized form. Hence, whatever the information tells an observer is only deceptive in that events prior to 6,000-years ago were not realized materially. That is, they were not events physically realized until a specific moment during day-four. There are individuals that do not consider in-transit information to be deception. Obviously, this mode requires knowledge as to the sequential moment when the external universe is to be realized. The RFM and the in-transit information model have no differentiating evidence.
No universe-specific physical laws are used for the RFM. This is why the RFM process applies to proposed secular and theological models. All of this certainly shows how "creation" reveals God's "power." He is not constrained. Now I always state that these are models in the analogue sense since God is a higher-intelligence. These descriptions need not correspond to the exact methods God employs. This means that these descriptions are a way to comprehended a mode of creation that probably, in the physical-world, cannot otherwise comprehend by His created.
The Biblically mentioned Solar System entities are produced by sudden realization in mature and fully functional form under the day-four scenario. The rapid formation suspended animation or in-transit information models do not require a "morphing" boundary employed in some of my writings. There is Scriptural evidence that the notion of "sudden" need not be instantaneous but rather it can mean a longer period during a specific creation-day. This is seen in the wording of some of the day-three events. For the original Earth scenario, the "water" was separated into two branches. As indicated by Genesis 1:9, no other water is realized. There is water "above" the original firmament region and the water world from which the original Earth emerges is the remaining portion of the original water. There is the sudden change in this water world where the water now appears to be gathered together into seas and DRY land appears. There is also a "bringing forth" or "production" (i.e. shall become) mentioned. This indicates that an event can take place over a time interval within day-three. This model preserves the exact ordering of events as described in Genesis 1. It preserves the exact realization of the material objects and processes that yield these realized objects as modeled by a type of "mental speaking" or "commanding."
A universe generating event sequence contains a vast number of correlated and developing physical-systems. For our universe, one member of a library could contain say 10^(75) or even a greater number of physical-systems depending upon how they are related and defined. Then the library itself can have just as many individual and needed universe generating event sequences. So, this implies that 10^(150) or more possible event sequences may be needed. The ultranatural events are also part of each event sequence. Theologically, these form an interface with the theological preternatural world, which itself has an interface with God's pure supernatural world. Hence, as the model predicts, only ultralogic operators can control all of this. Of course, these processes are designed by a higher-intelligence and have a higher-intelligence signature. Due to the existence of ultranatural theories and laws, as well as ultranatural events, the descriptions for these creationary procedures must be considered only suggestive in character. Further, for these same reasons, these scenario descriptions must be considered as incomplete.
As with all such theoretical discussions, present-day observations yield indirect evidence for the acceptance of the mentioned creationary scenarios, and I am confident that no evidence will ever contradict these scenario descriptions. Apparently, to match the Scriptures, the firmament should also display a type of encircling or encompassing of the Earth. Such an encompassing appears in Proverbs 8:27. Matthew Henry comments on this passage. "He was not less active when, on the second day, he stretched out the firmament, the vast expanse, and 'set' that as a 'compass' upon the face of the depth,' surrounding it on all sides with that canopy, that curtain."
This idea that there is a surrounding or a "circle" about the Earth is also stated in many other "translations." KJV "When He drew a circle on the face of the deep." NASB "When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep." Young's "In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep, . . . ." ASV "When he set a circle on the surface of the deep, . . . ." This has led me to believe that there is some observational evidence that the external universe satisfies the Scriptural notion that the Earth is surrounded by the firmament, a firmament that might display its presence via a "surrounding" notion while radically "spreading out" from a spacial point. This implies that the Earth was designed originally "near to" the "center" of expansion. But, since the Sun, Moon, possibly other non-Earth portions of the Solar System and the external universe all were realize during day-four, any evidence that the firmament apparently "surrounds" the Earth would probably also be evidence that the firmament surrounds our Solar System or even approximately surrounds our home galaxy. (The apparent size of our Galaxy is a rather large number. The notion of approximately would be relative to its apparent size.)
The simplest special evidence would be that various galaxies at approximately the same distance from the Earth would generally form spherical-like shells about the local Earth environment. However, since the galaxies are in relative motion, I do not contend that any observed effects need to be continuous effects throughout the cosmos. All that is needed is that enough galaxies satisfy this "shell effect" so that this configuration yields a signature relative to the local environment that implies that the firmament originally satisfied this "circular surrounding" notion. Further evidence just for the notion of a circular effect might be the possible observed redshift or gravitational effects that would be comprehensible in the sense of Gödel, say, and describable as a universe wide rotational effect.
[As derived in The Theory of Infinitesimal Light-clocks p. 68, the Robinson-Walker line-element is totally based upon light propagation properties, the chronotopic interval, alterations in infinitesimal light-clock counts and the selection of a potential velocity. The potential velocity statement used is a combined substratum expression that relates substratum motion to natural world behavior. The metric is not derived using hypersphere notions. Of course, the metric can be interpreted in terms of a spacetime metric as measured by infinitesimal light-clocks but does not need to be so interpreted for a redshift interpretation. The potential velocity used in this derivation allows the metric to be directly related to Riemannian geometry. But, it need not be so related. The actual derivation of the redshift express is not dependent upon a theory of gravity. A basic redshift expression such as (63.3) in D. F. Lawden, An Introduction to Tensor Calculus, Relativity and Cosmology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982, p. 182, is obtained directly from the infinitesimal light-clock form of the Robinson-Walker metric and infinitesimal light-clock measurements. No gravitational field notions are required.]
It is totally false that a modern cosmology based upon the Hilbert-Einstein gravitational field equations requires that there by no privileged position within our universe. Some evidence for a privileged position, a type of center from which a surrounding expansion originated, is the redshift interpreted as an "apparent" average recession of galactic matter as viewed from our significant observational position in space. This is especially so since, as mentioned, the expansion Robinson-Walker metric is derivable without considering any gravitational dynamics. Further, it has been suggested that the apparent quantized redshifts might be such observational evidence for a shell effect. Of course, there may be other explanations for this type of redshift from which an individual might choose. Further, since vast motions where introduced during day-four and measurement of such motions are but relative measures, there appears to no instrumentation that can reliably produce evidence from within our local environment that can determine whether our universe is a geocentric or heliocentric or a Milky Way centered model.
Today, the standard Big Bang (BB) model employs a "stretching or expansion" that, in general, produces the average recessional motion of galactic matter. From the event sequence viewpoint, such an expansion can be comprehended as discussed in the last note to this article. As mentioned, the purpose for this expansion, at the time the exterior universe was realized, is to demonstrate that our local environment was originally selected at a privileged position and the firmament surrounds it.
I have no doubt that my RFM and its application to the model I have selected for external universe creation will be criticized. Some who claim to be Christians, even Christians who are scientists, will reject my selection. Such scientists continue to present cosmologies that are completely developmental in structure or cosmologies that have little Scriptural support. The cosmologies they invent appear to be yet another example where God has allowed a great delusion to occur.
[3] As previously defined, the term "development" refers to the notion that formation of entities progresses from definable simple stages to definable complex stages via event sequences. When restricted to biological entities, one might term such a development as "evolution." At present, I believe that the physical laws that existed within the Earth's vicinity, prior to the Flood, and especially prior to the Fall, were considerable different from those that exist today. I accept as scientific fact that all of the Scripturally stated specifically named local objects were, with one possible exception, realized suddenly at the level of maturity and functionality that is in accordance with the Biblical description. (The one exception is that the certain day-three entities might have been produced over an interval no greater than a 24-Earth-time hours.) For sudden realization examples consider "water" (with other features, at first, in suspended animation), "light," dry land, biological entities, the Sun and the Moon. However, what we observe today is very different from what was present during creation week.
I am a "Young Earth Creationist" (YEC) in the following sense. Until the Fall, most of the perceivable natural laws applicable to our local environment did not include those that, today, we associated with "physical death." The process we call the conservation of energy was also not applicable to all objects. On pages 198 - 199 of the above book, I discuss what I accept as fact relative to the creation statements made in Genesis 1:1-5. Word analysis of these verses shows that the probably slowly rotating water as first mentioned has a surface and all other features would appear to be in suspended animation. The water is to be separated into two portions. The portion under the "firmament" is the portion that is used for the earthly seas and for no other purpose. The Hebrew terms used prior to this separation indicate that before, in observer time, the "dry land" appeared, the "land" was in an "unreal" form. This is exactly the unrealized and pre-designed requirement associated with the Genesis sequence interpretation for the GGU-model. To be realized in the physical-world, God would need to activate the subparticle combination processes and apply a process modeled by the standard part operator. These processes are included as a necessary step, for specific physical-systems, with the application of the "God said" ultralogic operator. This is the conjoining of each "universe-wide-frozen frame" and allows a physical-system to develop in observer time. For example, such a frozen frame would exhibit a portion of the realized water at one moment in the event sequence, and immediately this portion is replaced by dry land and the realized dry land takes its place. On the other hand, the dry land could suddenly appear as if it had been originally composed of water and came from the water. As the Greek states "cohering out of water" where cohering means to stand together. There is no need whatsoever for God to have transformed some water into the dry land using additional physical processes.
All original Earth physical events are obtained in the same manner as the "dry land" and "Seas" are obtained via rapid or sudden appearance. There need be no humanly comprehensible regularities that guide any of the original developments. For example, the objects that appeared during day-three do not require the Sun to have been realized during any previous creation-day. The term Eden (Pleasantness) (i.e. Pleasentville) identifies a region in which natural-system behavior was considerably different from that we experience today. Further, locations not in Eden, if any, also display natural-system behavior different from that which we observe today. For example, as discussed in my "Final Personal Statement," I postulate that there was no rain throughout the entire Earth until the Flood occurred. However, it is my view that relative to notions not mentioned in Genesis 1-8, speculation should be constrained.
Prior to the Fall, there appears to be a much greater interplay between the ultranatural world and the material world. This is especially true within the Garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden, the physical-system behavior was very, very different from that observed today. Any differences in physical-system behavior in the Garden of Eden and elsewhere all occurred through realized pre-designed event sequences. When God cursed the ground (Genesis 3:17), the special perceivable natural laws that excluded, at least, human physical death were altered so that "aging" occurred at an unknown but definite rate via event sequences and clearly other aspects of Pleasantville no longer applied. The notion of "natural evil" (disease, earthquake, tsunami etc.) would only be slightly present relative to "aging" and "death." Of course, covirtual libraries and events sequences were pre-designed with these possibilities where humankind is either included within or excluded from the event sequences. Recall that, for this theological interpretation, pre-designed can be conceive of as being within the "mind of God." To speak or command is distinct from such "mental processes."
Attempting to give a "reason" why such pre-designed libraries should have been created in the first place is highly problematic. One should learn to simply accept various Biblical notions and statements as those offered by a true higher-intelligence. The Bible states that it is Adam and Eve's disobedience that directly caused them to be included within this first level of destructive natural-system behavior. (For comparison purposes only, the event sequences that yield this new local environment may be considered as formed by coalescing of other event sequences. Of course, the event sequences are in realized form.)
As mentioned in the book, during the Flood and due to the selection of a different collection of pre-designed event sequences, previous perceivable natural laws would appear to be altered so that they correspond to those we perceive today. After the Flood, these altered laws, at the very least, are consistent with our present aging concepts. My previous approach to the after-Flood environment is altered in my next belief statement. The Biblically statement relative to a "strong delusion" is a reason why many natural-systems displayed today give the appearance of age to those individuals that do not have a special discernment. God's curse has removed much of the natural-system evidence for the existence of this previous perfection. The local environment does not "remember," in major cases, that it was, in the beginning, accorded a special type of none corrupt existence. However, as specifically described in Genesis 1, there are specific animal, including human, and vegetable entities that display, today, secular macroevolutionary anomalies which are best explained by assuming that they appeared suddenly in a mature and fully functional form. Further, other signatures for "rather sudden" appearance may also be observed. No unguided materialistic macroevolutionary mechanism will satisfactorily explain all of the actual evidence. Relative to such life forms, the realized branches of the Genesis library appear additive.
The Flood is a significant solution to a problem fostered by humanity itself. Obviously, humankind, knowing the difference between what God considers as "good" or "evil," had chosen "evil" and this forced God, in natural-system terms, to give humanity what it sought - a highly destructive and violent environment. This is the type of environment that exists throughout our universe. Consequently, it is not the actual physical environment that has any relationship to "evil." Humankind has simply forced God to place it within an environment that corresponds, from the material natural-system sense, to the physical evil it practices. God, of course, allows humankind a way out of this dilemma, a way to remove the actual "sting" of death, a way to attain "eternal" life in His presence within a new type of Garden of Eden.
In the book, various ways are discussed that lead to environmental changes. Although it is only necessary that appropriate event sequences be realized, there is an intermediate process that I previously originated that could have produced the Flood and it gives apparent age to our local environment. This is described in the paper Was the Genesis Flood, Along With All of Its Effects, The Result of a Single Physical Event?. Since this procedure must be coupled with a realized branch of the library of ultimate ultrawords that yields event sequences, then a specific ultimate ultraword is all that is necessary. That is, this ultraword is primary and the result might simply be explained without the ultraword notion by application of the metric discussed in the above paper. The application of the realization process to such an ultimate ultraword rather than the special metric approach is my present belief.
Once again, due to the existence of ultranatural theories and laws as well as ultranatural events, the descriptions and predictions for this Genesis Flood scenario must be considered only suggestive in character. Further, for these same reasons, this scenario description must be considered as incomplete. As with all such theoretical discussions, present-day observations yield indirect evidence for the acceptance of this creationary scenario and no evidence will ever contradict this scenario description. However, pre-Flood unaltered evidence may exist that will reveal the existence of specific antediluvian natural processes distinct from those gleaned from present-day observations. My YEC stance is based upon the necessity for "great apparent age" as exhibited today by many, but not all, material objects and, in general, is based upon standard earth-time. In general, earth-time is time measured via any highly periodic and precise earth-bound natural-system. Earth-time is a restricted form of observer time.
[4] Mathematically, the coalescing of all "frozen-frames" can be rationally assumed to be controlled by intelligent actions. As discussed in the book, research described in the article The Wondrous Design and Non-random Character of Chance Events or in the paper at arXiv implies that, when first created, statistical models coupled with an allowable perturbation scheme are the most likely bases for the fundamental (particle physics realm) and other natural-system behavior for entities within the universe. The use of such a model does not imply error or imperfection. These models, as presented in this research, do not imply any lack of complete Divine control via intelligent agency. Further, the alterations in perceivable natural laws would necessarily require the same probabilistic and perturbation scheme to be the fundamental character for natural-system behavior as it is observed today throughout the entire cosmos.
Some creationary scientists claim that the statistical behavior within the universe corresponds to the notion that the universe is "cursed" due to human sin. They use as a proof text Paul's statement in Rom. 8:22 "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." (KJV) This belief is incorrect. The notion of "the whole (all of) creation" is essentially the same as that which appears in Mark 16:15 and Col. 1:23. "The whole creation" Paul refers to in Rom. 8:22 is only that of the local earth environment, which is altered from its special character (cursed) due to sinful behavior. This fact is also upheld by the commentaries of Matthew Henry and Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown. Statistical behavior is a designed higher-intelligence notion for the external universe. As shown by an interpretation of my theorem on probability models and ultralogics, God controls such behavior by a process that only He can perform. It is because of the Fall of man and the Flood, that this local environment most now follow all of the same physical process as those exhibited by the external universe.
[5] What "evolutionary" processes I accept, I discuss in my third and Final Personal Statement. Any apparent evolutionary behavior is intelligently pre-designed and all coalescing of frozen-frames is controlled by intelligent agency. As pointed out, the interpretation that any such behavior is not controlled by a higher-intelligence, not related to other intelligent agents and that such processes were the original processes by which our local environment as well as the exterior universe came into being yields a strong delusion. As mentioned elsewhere, there is, at the least, one general comprehensible reason why God may have created the exterior universe in its perceived form.
[6] At present and due to the most recently discovered results mentioned in [3], I tend to reject so-called "common sense" geometric styled models for the fundamental realm of particle physics in that they appear to be anti-scriptural. The Scriptures state specifically (Romans 1:20 and elsewhere) that through investigation of natural-system behavior one should be able to glean some of the invisible attributes of God. Define "common sense" as descriptions that neither depend upon some special knowledge nor comprise profound rationalized knowledge, as the case may be. Under this definition, the teachings of Jesus (Matthew 5 and elsewhere) are far from being what would pass for "common sense," especially today. Further, throughout the Scriptures, we are told how very different are God's "thoughts" from those of His created. These facts illustrate that the Divine mind need not follow the concept of human "common sense."
[7] Please note, I tend to limit my prideful tendency to explain in humanly comprehensible terms what I might imagine are the exact details as to "how" God created anything. The reason for this is the GID-model prediction that we are dealing with a God that is not only infinitely powerful in comparable attributes but also infinitely more intelligent than any created entity. I accept the following general statement. It is a scientific fact that the processes that have produced and continue to alter our entire universe, through this very moment, are consistent with the exact ordered sequence of events as described in Genesis 1 - 8 as they are literally interpreted in the strictest sense. Major aspects of this fact have been verified by application of 1 John 2:27 and appropriate physical verification.
[8] I have not stated previously whether I accept the Earth-rotation period for the creation-days. I mention in "Science Declares Our Universe Is Intelligently Designed" that the length of a creation-day most be determined from Scriptural analysis. However, it is clear that there are, at least, six primitive time intervals that can be identified as corresponding to active realizations of event sequences. It is also self-evident that there is no prohibition to corresponding each of these primitive time intervals to Earth-time as measured by one complete Earth-rotation, as viewed from our local environment, and as represented by any equivalent highly periodic Earth-bound natural-system behavior as such behavior was originally realized. Hence, I now accept the time interval for each creation-day as that measured by one complete Earth-rotation relative to the firmament.
[Note: As shown in (2, p. 68), a general expansion metric is not dependent upon whether expansion occurs from each arbitrary point or from one point within a realized universe. It is rather difficult to comprehend expansion as occurring from each point if one does not have a reasonable description for what constitutes the firmament. In the two cases, the firmament is composed of subparticles of various forms, at least, either ultrasubparticles or intermediate subparticles (3, Chapter 11). Such a field can have a special property. There are spatial points that correspond to those within a realized 3-D universe and points that do not correspond to such points. Consider any two distinct spatial points P and Q, where two subparticles of either form reside. Surrounding each P and Q, so to speak, are two other collections of ultraparticles called "monadic clusters," M(P) and M(Q). They have nothing in common (they are disjoint) and, except for the P and Q subparticles, they cannot be realized using the basic GGU-model operators. But if each monadic cluster expanded uniformly and radially, then the point P and Q would appear to expand one from another. I point out that due to a special ordering no matter how this expansion progresses the expanded monadic clusters remain disjoint.
On the other hand, each realized spatial point Q with its subparticle could be radially expanding from a single point P for some cosmologies. I this case, such an expansion would also lead to an a radially expansion of the monadic clusters. The difference between these two forms of expansion is in what initiates the expansion, the expanding monadic clusters or the expanding realized points P and Q.]
Important: In the following article and my final personal statement, I give my complete, both scientific and Scriptural, solution to all the post-Flood controversies. All of the present day scientific evidence and literally interpreted Biblical statements are consistent with this solution.
References 1. Herrmann, Robert A., Science Declares Our Universe is Intelligently Designed, Xulon Press, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2002.
2. Herrmann, Robert A., The Theory of Infinitesimal Light-Clocks, http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312189
3. Herrmann, Robert A., The Theory of Ultralogics,Part 2, http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9903082
Final Personal Statement .7 NOV 1998; last revision 30 OCT 2009.
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