{"id":1383,"date":"2018-11-19T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuastairhime.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2018-11-19T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T03:55:38","slug":"observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuastairhime.com\/index.php\/observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumble around Youtube from time to time, and occasionally something really captures my attention.\u00a0 I was wandering about Youtube yesterday in fact, and found a compilation video of a theoretical physicist named Michio Kaku.\u00a0 To summarize and simplify the first few minutes of the video, Michio shares that everything in the universe is like Schrodinger&#8217;s famous cat problem.\u00a0 For those of you who are unfamiliar, Schrodinger posits that if a cat is placed in a box and unobservable, it must be both dead and alive simultaneously.\u00a0 It is only when the box is opened and the cat is observed that it becomes either dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>Schrodinger&#8217;s cat is known for seeming to be illogical but theoretical physics has found that it is a viable interpretation of how our world is working at the atomic level.\u00a0 MIchio takes this concept a step further and talks about how nothing in the universe can even exist if it hasn&#8217;t been observed.\u00a0 He states that the observation of something is essential to it&#8217;s creation.<\/p>\n<p>Creation.\u00a0 Perhaps the biggest argument of science and faith.\u00a0 How were we created?<\/p>\n<p><em>Genesis 1:4\u00a0 And God saw the light,\u00a0that\u00a0it was\u00a0good; and God divided the light from the darkness.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God saw the light that he created.\u00a0 God observed the difference between light and darkness and then continued creating, seeing that each new thing was good.\u00a0 God &#8220;sees&#8221; 7 different times in the first chapter of Genesis.\u00a0 In the beginning, God created, God saw.\u00a0 He observed that which he had made, and called it good.<\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"en-NIV-16256\" class=\"text Ps-139-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">Psalm 139:16\u00a0<\/sup>Your eyes saw my unformed body;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-16\">all the days ordained\u00a0for me were written in your book<\/span><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-16\">before one of them came to be.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>God saw me when I was unformed, when he brought me forth into this world.\u00a0 He saw me then, and he sees me now.\u00a0 I am seen, and I am known.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one day we will see that science itself points to our creator, and perhaps in that day we will no longer only know in part, but instead see the entirety of the truth that God has created for us.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='625' height='352' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/711VklH-4fA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=761&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Did you enjoy what you just read?  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