Oh the universe is full of amazing and wonderful things and very few subjects have been the source of more fiery debates than the topic of evolution. But in all the hubbub of debates about creation, or intelligent design, or cosmological origins one major facet of the Christian faith goes unnoticed: the explanation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
Though the evidence for evolution is vast and far reaching and applied to origins, none of the same thinking has been weighed and married to this oft-neglected field.\u00a0 If we as Christians are failing in our embracing evolutionary models in regard to Creation, we have been woefully neglectful in explaining the resurrection of Jesus Christ in terms of modern science.<\/p>\n
In this post, I wish to posit a few possible reasons why the resurrection was not a miracle, but actually quite natural, spontaneous, and purely physical and why the Church must embrace this explanation to prepare for the future, especially in light of the overwhelming amount of data in support of biological evolution.<\/p>\n
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The proof I can offer is not as nebulous as it may seem. We Christians often supply a few proofs that the resurrection happened so we don\u2019t have to belabor the point. He was seen among witnesses. His grave was indeed empty. His death was sure. And the actual resurrection accounts for the apostolic beliefs.<\/p>\n
But this in no way implies that God couldn\u2019t have used spontaneous and natural processes to ensure that this resurrection would happen. We must not allow magic or miracles to discredit the very reasonable faith that we Christians embrace!<\/p>\n
First<\/strong> we have to admit that Jesus was fully man so he was limited by the knowledge of his day. He didn\u2019t have a clue how he would live again or even if he would live again. He was under the impression that the \u201cglory\u201d was the process of dying (read the entire book of John) and then he cried about it when he was going to die. That\u2019s not the reaction of a person who knew that they would die and come back.<\/p>\n Second<\/strong>, the disciples were surprised by the resurrection. They didn\u2019t have a clue he would do what he did and that would only make sense if it was in fact spontaneous and natural.<\/p>\n Third<\/strong>, we have perfectly good explanations for a physical, random, non-miraculous resurrection. For example, we know that there are an infinite amount of Earths. Given an infinite amount of Earths, there are an infinite amount of circumstances. Just like our Universe came into being because in an infinite number, the chances of something happening are sure to happen, then the chance of a person dying and coming back from the grave most definitely would happen. In fact, I\u2019d bet in this infinite series of worlds, there\u2019s a good chance that each of us get our chance at resurrecting randomly.<\/p>\n Even if we didn\u2019t posit infinite Christs, we can posit infinite physical universes where the laws of death and life are different.\u00a0 With science firmly in our grip we can conclude that God used processes\u2014like an infinite multiverse or infinite Christs\u2014to arrive at a natural, spontaneous , physical and non-miraculous resurrection from the dead.<\/p>\n We haven\u2019t even looked at Quantum particles which can be in two quantum states at the same time until observed. So Christ, while observed, w as in an alive state (a binary position of 1) and then he was in a two simultaneous states of dead and alive (0 and 1). If the quantum vacuum can bring something in from nothing, then the chance for Christ going from one binary state to a second one is infinitely possible. Heck, this could be a midichlorian process for all we know.<\/p>\n Fourth<\/strong>, we Christians need to stop being afraid of scientific explanations especially since Science is God\u2019s hands. The very smart people (who incidentally are much smarter than us) have told us that the impossible is just that and if it\u2019s physically possible it\u2019s infinitely more probable than the impossible. We need to stop being unscientific, embrace the sciences which are also God\u2019s revelation, his second Bible as it were, and teach that Christ\u2019s resurrection was natural, spontaneous, physical even if ultimately belonging to God.<\/p>\n In conclusion, we must embrace this lest Science, and the world, moves on in their Copernican revolution leaving us behind mumbling about our magical myths. If we truly want to engage the world and not be relegated to a position of non-importance, we must employ robust scientific thinking with the defense of our faith proving that God is not only reasonable, he is constant. We cannot allow Christianity to become a cult\u2014but this is what will happen if the Church continues to turn its head from scientific explanations!<\/p>\n <\/satire><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh the universe is full of amazing and wonderful things and very few subjects have been the source of more fiery debates than the topic of evolution. But in all the hubbub of debates about creation, or intelligent design, or cosmological origins one major facet of the Christian faith goes unnoticed: the explanation for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,6,29,17],"tags":[670,671,82,188],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-christ","category-history","category-reys-a-point","tag-evolution","tag-natural-processes","tag-resurrection","tag-satire"],"yoast_head":"\n