The Quantum Bible

There are at least two passages in the Bible that address the nature of consciousness and perceived reality.

 We are all familiar with Genesis 1:1, which says that

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

Less familiar is the second verse:

 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.

This second verse, so often overlooked, is as profound as the first.  In my view, it describes physical reality as an indeterminate potential of possibilities, which is strikingly similar to many interpretations of quantum physics / quantum mechanics (QM).

Nor does this theme end there.  In the second chapter of Genesis, we find yet another frequently overlooked passage that reinforces 1:2, verses 19 and 20

¹⁹ Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

Here we have what appears to be a strong inference that physical reality and human perception of it are interlocked, and that physical reality does not coalesce until a conscious perceiver acts.

I’m not a Biblical scholar nor a theologian, but after having struggled to reconcile quantum physics with my Christian beliefs, I was astounded to rediscover these passages in the earliest chapters of the Bible.

Science may be catching up.