Infinite Power

There are infinite number of points on a piece of paper, but that does not mean that piece of paper could cover the whole world, or even the points from another piece of paper.


God has infinite power, that doesn't mean God has the knowledge to know everything or capability to do anything he want to do.


If he has the power to have the full control of the time axis (like some legend story in some animation films), he did not have to be "grieved that he had made man on the earth", and "filled his heart with pain." So much that he had to wipe out mankind with the flood. (Genesis 6:5-7). He could just simply travel back through the time tunnel to the beginning and fix the flaws and come back and enjoy.

It is very likely that he does not remember the beginning moment of his own life, unless somebody told him. Or he might have got some clue on how he came to life by guessing, but he could never be 100% sure how that happened.


Most likely, he is not really sure he would one day, like everyone else of us, pass away. The only thing he knew is that everything got created and go to destruction in some way some day. Although he think he has the eternal life, but how can he be 100% sure about it. Who can give him a proof? Himself? How?


Although, God has infinite power, but that does not his power can cover everything he intended to do. Is it possible for him to give us happiness without the suffering, I guess the only answer is, he want to do that, but he could not.


God has infinite power, but there is something that even God does not have the power to do, or he need to figure out the way to do it. Through learning, learning from himself, or the human beings, his creation.


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So it is the sciene, when at the earlier stage, we saw science grow and explore new knowledge in a rapid stage, withing couple handreds of years, it almost covered all the areas of unknowns we human beings could possibly imagine.


At that moment, everybody believes that science has infinite power, and soon, it would be powerful enough to answer us every question we want to ask.


But it turned out, science has its own limits, and as the boundary expands, we only found out to be faced with more unknowns.

As everything about science is about observation, experiment, evidence and proof, it sets its own limitation.

As the principle law of physics, it must cost some energy in order to observe any phenomena. Natural science cannot really look much deeper beyond nuclear level. As the energy on that level could not split any more, impossible for scientist to observe. The only way to explore them is guessing, congestion and imagination. But how far you can go in that way, how can you convince me your theory is right.

On the other end, natural science limits its power by the speed of light. Regardless the advancement of science and technology, we can only be able to reach a very tiny part of the Universe (roughly 1000 light year v.s. 168 billion years) . Anything else that beyond that limit is just through derivation and congestion.

So if you tell me the Universe is 10 billion years old, how can you convince me. If you tell me the Universe will one day collapse, and right now it is in its middle age of life span, why do I believe you?

Maybe it has already started to collapse at some point but you never have a change to observe it. But the boundary of the collapse can only travel at the light speed, and the big bang is still expanding the boundary of Universe at the same speed, then it would never catch up. So who cares?

So in some sense, science has its limited power. And it can be taken just as another religion; it also needs our faith to believe. At the frontier of science, everything also accounts to rational imagination and congestion; at least, not everything is solid. If it’s just plain fact that everyone could observe and prove, why we need science?