Today's Wisdom

Those who do not pass from the experience of the cross to the truth of the resurrection condemn themselves to despair! For we cannot encounter God without first crucifying our narrow notions of a god who reflects only our own understanding of omnipotence and power
Pope Francis

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Information Systems

Information systems are found in the entire cosmos from the sub-atomic particles to the huge galaxies. Thanks to automated systems, Big Data of whole galaxies including the speed with which stars and their planets are moving away from others, can be retrieved through modern telescopes. In living organisms, genetic engineering has shown a certain pattern of data in molecules called the DNA. (see Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the human genome project,  explain the link between science and creation here). Computer systems speed up human work on using and manipulating natural resources.Quantum Computers work in parallel processes which speed up any functions multiple times (see Prof. Leo Kouwenhoven here. One implementation of quantum computing is the so-called nanotechnology (see this link). No matter how you slice it, there is no escape that every person needs information rather than raw data. Telescopes without analysis of what they find in the galaxies are not meaningful. As the Big Bang Theory has been accepted as the standard model of evolutionary development, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. (1881-1955) is credited with
interpreting it, and so is Rev. Georges LeMaitre Professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven (1894-1966) for initiating the thought about it attributed to Edwin Hubble.
Information systems exist too at the sub-nuclear level. It is still a mystery how two photons, that were together in the same atom, continue to be in contact miles away from each other. This is the effect of quantum physics proven experimentally by Alain Aspect and his team in 1981.
There is a critical difference between raw data and intelligible information in any reporting system.
Regardless of the size, information could not have come from nothing. There must be a source, and the source must be intelligent enough to create such huge and complex database systems. If it is a finite source, then the question could be asked whether there is more knowledge that this source could not have. In the philosophical inquiry, the unlimited source would be the creator of all things. The question would then be for this unlimited and eternal creator that we call God. Could he be enjoying looking at his knowledge for all eternity without sharing it? Would not this god be full of himself (the ego complex in analytical psychology)? It follows that God must be able to share his being with another yet remains one. Since sharing is a step towards full love, it becomes clear that God of all creatures is the God of Christians (1 John 4: 16). In His eternal existence, the Father loves the Son so much that He gives all He has (His Divinity) to the Son; and the Son receives the Divinity of the Father and in gratitude to His Father returns the fullness of Divinity to His Father. The binding love that unites the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit "The giver of life"...In 2002, the Jesuit scholar Fr. Henri Boulad explained this Christian dogma.
* Since I am the  author of the above article, I wish to clarify that I have over 30 years experience in the development, implementation and teaching of database information systems and a Master's degree in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix in the United States.

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"Behold I make all things new." (Revelation 21:5)







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