Genesis 1
Thus Yahweh has already created an EM spectrum, but it has at least one gap in it, the place where visible light goes.
So when Yahweh says 'owr! ─ 'light', 'daylight', 'dawn' but we don't have a sun yet ─ then light at wavelengths 390 to 700 nm or so comes into being.
How? How does magic work?
Here, plainly, a command is required. It's very like the old joke, where Yahweh says, Let there be light! and nothing happens till he says, Let there be light ─ please. Who's being commanded? Some angel in charge of the physics? Who has to get out the books, identify the problem, and its cause, and the solution, round up a field team and then actually do whatever's required?
It must be something like that, no?
Using this as an example, how do miracles get done? It's all very well to utter magic words, but someone's got to do the sums, the planning, and the legwork.
Anyone know?
1 In the beginning, Yahweh created earth and sky (or, heaven).
2. The earth was shapeless, empty and dark.
Water existed.
3 Yahweh said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
So what does 'light' mean here? Well, we're told there's mayim ─ 'water', 'urine', but the first seems more likely; and it doesn't say qerach, 'ice', 'frost', 'crystal'. For water not to be ice, there must be ambient energy, so the EM spectrum already exists.2. The earth was shapeless, empty and dark.
Water existed.
3 Yahweh said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Thus Yahweh has already created an EM spectrum, but it has at least one gap in it, the place where visible light goes.
So when Yahweh says 'owr! ─ 'light', 'daylight', 'dawn' but we don't have a sun yet ─ then light at wavelengths 390 to 700 nm or so comes into being.
How? How does magic work?
Here, plainly, a command is required. It's very like the old joke, where Yahweh says, Let there be light! and nothing happens till he says, Let there be light ─ please. Who's being commanded? Some angel in charge of the physics? Who has to get out the books, identify the problem, and its cause, and the solution, round up a field team and then actually do whatever's required?
It must be something like that, no?
Using this as an example, how do miracles get done? It's all very well to utter magic words, but someone's got to do the sums, the planning, and the legwork.
Anyone know?