Does a higher power intervene in the world?

[dragonrider]

So, i think the higher powers would intervene in the physical world through this "holes" in the physical laws. A higher power would, for example, induce the atom to emit its radiation at some choosen instant. Doing so it wouldnt be interfering with the physical laws, and yet it would be acting somehow upon the physical world.

I am amazed that someone else thoguht of this idea too! When I was studying physics and learned about the Heisenberg Uncertatinty Principle and the other things like virtual particles and vacuum fluctuations, I thought this is where a supernatural being could influence events without violating physics.

I firmly believe that physics always holds true --- no "miracle" can violate the laws of physics. But our understanding of physics now says that there are certain limits to what we can know about the state of a particle at the quantum level. Virtual particles pop out of nothingness and then disappear all the time. And I mean all the time --- every nanosecond uncountable numbers appear, recombine and disappear.

It seemed like to me that if a God, or other supernatural being that stood outside of our normal physics could control what is physically unknowable inside our physics, then that being could influence events without violating our laws of physics.

I don't actually believe that supernatural beings do this, but it occured to me that it would be one way to allow for "miracles" and maintain consistency with physics.

If you believe that God created the universe, and also believe in the Big Bang, then you probably already believe in this idea without even knowing it. One physical explanation for the Big Bang is that it is some form of highly unprobable vacuum fluctuation that resulted in unusual particles arising out of the vacuum and such rapid inflation that the virtual particles became so separated that they could never recombine and fall back into the vacuum. The universe arose out of the uncertainty principle. If you believe that, and you also believe God created the universe, then you basically believe God created the miracle of the universe through influencing the uncertainty principle.