God is Watching!

 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; the earth was waste and void; darkness covered the abyss, and the spirit of God was stirring above the waters.

According to modern science, what was true, is true today.  Scripture says, In Him we live and move and have our very being (Acts 17:28) and

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together (Col.1:17).  Bruce Gordon, a philsopher of science states, "....reality, in toto, is continually realized through divine action (mental causation) as an expression of ongoing creation."  In other words, creation is not an event in the past, but an ongoing action of God in the present.   "God saw....God said."  God continues to see and He continues to speak --- and His Word holds all things in existence, just as at the beginning.  He speaks to what He sees.

The physicist who invented the term black hole  (John Wheeler) studied the relationship between the observed experiment and the observer (the scientist performing the experiment).  In quantum physics, it is only when the quanta packets of energy are being interfered with by the observing of the scientist that they "collapse" into a particular material state.  Only then do they become identifiable and measurable.  Wheeler concluded that an "Observer" was essential for the existence of the universe itself, because only such an observer could give it reality:  ....the entire universe only exists because someone is watching it----everything, right back to the Big Bang some 15 billion years ago, remained undefined until noticed.

When the physicist sets up his experiment to detect particles, he finds that light energy exists in particles.  When he sets up the experiment to detect waves, light energy expresses itself in waves.  Leading physicists have concluded that there is not only the experimentally verifiable horizontal cause and effect, but a "vertical causality" (the scientist himself).  For them, the solution to the quantum enigma implies the existence of another dimension of time. 

Interestingly, Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas had all seen the real world as "images" of the model in the mind of God.  The pagan philosophers, of course, referred to the "ideal" forms to which the material forms conformed.  Aquinas spoke of "aeviternal" time where eternity overlaps with chronological everyday time and configures the "real" world.  In other words, God has set up His World as His "experiment" to produce and reveal the Image in His Mind of the real world.  

When we were children, we were told that God is "watching" us.  Indeed He is!