A while ago, some thoughts entered the forefront of this feeble and aging mind. Being formally trained in computing, a problem in compute-ability sparked some neural activity. Simply stated, this problem states how can an event, E, occur both before and after another referenced event, R. Hence, the name ERE It Be. In short, this was planned as an enrichment thought problem for any course in computing or mathematics which I might have in a teaching future. It is an "open" problem. One might say that a standard "acceptable" canned answer does not yet exist for it. Also, one might consider it solve-able by a myriad of means in computing and mathematics terms when one reasons outside the bounds placed upon him.
Yet, this evening while subconsciously working on numerous tasks and playing some Gospel music which helped regulate the ebb and flow of this thought, something from Genesis 1:1-5 called for my attention in light of the last weblog posting. Genesis 1:1-5 is as follows.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
The supposition in the previous posting was that light preceded the establishment of His universe. It has been corroborated by centuries of "scientific study" that a large release of energy produced this physical world and that all matter is the composition of small units of light. Yet, the knowledge of man is mere foolishness compared with the wisdom of God. As it states, in 1 Cor 3:19-21a:
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Therefore let no man glory in men...
So, His Word needeth not verification, validation, or testing.
The first few verses of Gensis 1 which are the crux of this short note are intensely pithy!
From the given in these verses, we might draw the fact that His Vision for this universe, including its constituents, proceeded its realization of them with the spoken command "let there be light". This is based upon the fragment, "without form, and void".
Such support was not given in the earlier argument, On the Nature of Light.
Likely, the notion of ERE it BE was placed in my conscious thought so I might reach for scripture in resolution of this problem. This has provided a better solution than text and notes on distributed computing, novel approaches at modeling numerous dimensions, and etc.
Upon taking Theory of Computation and doing readings on man's reasoning about the infinitude of number sets, the thought that Cantor's choice for the transfinite numbers might be a faint voice telling him that he should read Psalm 119 crossed my mind. For assuming that infinity is at an attainable fixed location suggests that the Everlasting has a terminus. This must simply not be, or we shall be pitied above all creatures.
Hopefully, these note are not excessively academic. It is my goal that I reach a few in the scientific community.
I had the pleasure of meeting a leading figure in Internet development. I asked him if he was a man of faith. He gave a nebulus answer, but might have followed it with a subtle statement of faith. Some feel that discussing faith in certain public forums is unwise.
Forgive any "flight of ideas". These notes were drafted about the time that the PTA would show up knocking on doors in my neighborhood as old Charlie Brown would say. Also, pardon the antiquated popular music allusion.
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