Spooky Action at a Distance

I've always been a big believer in general revelation. That is, God reveals himself and speaks to us through His creation. I think Paul lays out a pretty solid argument for this in his letter to the Romans "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (1:20)

Jesus uses nature quite a bit in his parables when teaching and I believe that not only could God's fingerprint NOT be on His creation, but He built in these analogies to give us even if we never had the written or spoken word.

So here is my hypothesis: as we learn more and more about God's creation, we learn more and more about God. Ancient peoples couldn't see the microscopic, let alone conceive of quantum mechanics - and why should they? Understanding relativity is of little use when growing crops and herding animals. Yet, we have been given the great opportunity to see farther and smaller and great minds explore the strange world of quarks, atoms and wavparticleal duality.

This is leading somewhere, I promise. You see, yesterday during prayer we began to pray for those abroad, specifically in Oaxaca. It was brought to my mind that we are bound to those people and that place and that what happens here affects what happens there and vice-versa. I suppose you could extend that idea to prayer in general. Our hope is that our words are heard by God and have an effect on people and places far away from us. As I was praying, I was reminded of "spooky action at a distance."

Spooky action at a distance (and I don't claim to know much more than rudimentary basics) essentially works by a process of entanglement. Somehow two atoms get entangled so that the state of one is known if the state of the other is known even if the two arseparateded by great distances (theoretically.) Changing the state of one of the atoms also changes the state of the other.

Now I'm not sure this is general revelation, but I contend that there is "spiritual spooky action". God entangles us with other people and places spiritually and therefore empowers us to affect them via intercessary prayer and the state of one place somehow affects the state of the other. This is most certainly a bit on the fringe of my thinking and all very hypothetical (which means it bears testing out) but it seems to have an intuitive sense to me. Paul writes to the Corinthians that we are one body - if one part hurts, the whole thing hurts, if one part celebrates, the whole part celebrates. Even the concept of the "sins of the fathers" seems to bind people together not only through space but time.

I wish I was much more versed in physics, especially at this level, but the more I learn about it, the more I see ties to who God is and how he works. That makes sense, though. How can we not see the marks of the Creator upon creation?