Time
Time is defined as the system
of sequential relations that any event has to any other as past, present
or future. It’s also been defined as a continuous duration regarded
as that within which events succeed one another. For us, in our
normal lives, it’s those segments of life which can be measured on
a clock for that’s how we really view time. We may
call it history or the present or the future, but simply it’s a measurement
in the existence of the universe. It is a measurement
we live by, depend and take for granted.
Down through the centuries
various means have been used to determine time. It may have been
by a sun dial, a sextant, a sand or water or spring mechanism or an
atomic clock. All those inventions were dependent on one thing
- the perfect symmetry of nature. It doesn’t take much to realize
that there must be an intelligence behind the existence of nature.
It’s too perfect to be otherwise. It is not haphazard.
In fact, it proves the existence of a superior being who created what
there is. It proves the existence of God.
Today we hear of a rift
between science and the Bible on creation. Did creation of the
universe take place over a number of days a few thousands years ago
(Bible) or did it take place in a series of steps over a period of billions
of years?(science). The real argument isn’t about how long creation
took. The real argument is about the existence of a supreme being
who created things so perfectly. Is there one or isn’t there?
Science which many use to deny God really proves that there is God.
Surprisingly, the latest part of the scientific argument begins with
a Belgian priest, Monsignor Georges H Lemaitre who propounded
a theory which his detractor, astronomer Fred Hoyle, derisively called
“the big bang theory.” Lemaitre spoke of the “primeval atom”
from which the entire universe evolved. Modern science accepts
his theory and is trying to prove it. Through the use of the Hubble
telescope and other instruments it is attempting to go back in time
to the primeval atom. And if it can? Monsignor Lemaitre
was quick to use an old Latin expression, “ex nihilo, nihil fit -
from nothing, nothing comes” and asked, “If this theory is correct,
where did this primeval atom come from? His answer, “It couldn’t
come from itself if it didn’t exist, so it had to come from something
that already existed and that something is the intelligent God.”
The present rift between science and the Bible should not exist because
both the Bible and science agree to a common answer to creation.
The answer is, indeed, God.
The Hammonton Ministerium wishes you a happy summer TIME.
Monsignor Charles P. Barth
Administrator
St. Anthony of Padua Parish