The perhaps most-ridiculed Bible teaching — the resurrection of  the dead — now looks plausible thanks to modern physics!

The Greek "anatasis" occurs 42 times in the New Testament and is 40 times translated "resurrection" in the KJV Bible. Another word, "egeiro", which occurs more than 140 times, refers to resurrection about 90 times and to other ways of "rising", such as standing up or becoming influential, about 50 times.

Examples of "anastasis":




I asked Copilot, the AI that comes with Windows 11:
"What is 'information' and can it be destroyed?"


Copilot answered:

At the heart of modern physics lies a provocative principle: information is never truly destroyed. It's a formal consequence of quantum mechanics and underpins some of the most profound debates in theoretical physics.

In physics, information refers to the complete specification of a system's state—its position, momentum, spin, etc. For example:

In classical mechanics, knowing the state of every particle allows you to predict the future (and retrodict the past).

In quantum mechanics, the wavefunction encodes all possible outcomes and their probabilities.

So when we ask whether information can be destroyed, we're really asking: Can the universe lose track of what it once knew?



Quantum mechanics is governed by unitary evolution—a fancy way of saying that the total information in a closed system is preserved over time. Even if a quantum state appears to "decohere" or become randomized, the information doesn’t vanish—it migrates.

This is formalized in the no-hiding theorem: If information disappears from a system, it must have moved somewhere else—typically into the environment.

So even when a quantum state becomes a mixed state (like a pure note turning into noise), the original “melody” is still encoded in the correlations between system and environment.



Stephen Hawking famously argued that black holes evaporate via Hawking radiation, seemingly destroying the information about what fell in. This led to the black hole information paradox: if information is lost, unitarity is violated.

But many physicists—Leonard Susskind among them—argue that:

Information is not destroyed, but somehow encoded in the outgoing radiation. This view aligns with the holographic principle, suggesting that all information in a volume of space can be represented on its boundary.

In this view, the universe is like a cosmic ledger—every transaction is recorded, even if we can’t read the ink.

You might ask: what about entropy? Doesn’t it imply information loss?

Not quite. Entropy measures missing information—what we don’t know about a system. But that doesn’t mean the information is gone. It’s just inaccessible or scrambled beyond recognition. Think of burning a book: The words are gone to you. But in principle, every atom, photon, and vibration carries traces of what was there.

So, Is Information Ever Truly Destroyed?
In quantum theory: no, not fundamentally.
In practice: yes, functionally—because recovering it may be computationally or physically impossible.

It’s a bit like saying: the pieces of a shattered vase still exist, but good luck reconstructing the exact floral pattern from the dust.

 


Question:
"If information cannot be destroyed, only scrambled or dispersed, what does this imply for future technology or perhaps "God" restoring long-dead, decomposed people to life?"

That's a profound and beautifully layered question—one that bridges thermodynamics, metaphysics, and speculative tech.

In quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, there's a growing consensus that information is never truly destroyed, even if it becomes practically irretrievable.

This idea is central to:

•   The Black Hole Information Paradox: Stephen Hawking once suggested black holes erase information, but
     later theories (like holographic principles) argue that information is preserved on the event horizon.

•    Landauer's Principle: Erasing information from a system increases entropy—so even deletion has a
     physical cost.

•    Quantum Unitarity: Evolution of quantum states is reversible, implying that the past is encoded in the
      present, albeit in scrambled form.

So if every particle interaction leaves a trace, then in theory, the complete history of a person—including their thoughts and memories—might be embedded in the universe's quantum state.



If we take this seriously, it opens wild but not entirely implausible doors:

1. Quantum Archaeology

•    A speculative field proposing that future civilizations could reconstruct individuals by reverse-engineering
     the quantum states of particles dispersed after death.
•    It would require unimaginable computational power and precision, but in principle, it’s not ruled out by
      physics.

2. Digital Resurrection

•    AI is already simulating personalities of the deceased using voice, text, and video data.
•    Future tech might combine genetic data, behavioral patterns, and environmental traces to create
      hyper-realistic emulations—not just avatars, but entities with continuity of personality.

3. Cosmic Backup Systems

If the universe is a kind of computational substrate (as some pancomputationalists argue), then perhaps every life is encoded in spacetime itself, waiting to be recompiled.



From a metaphysical or theological angle, this idea dovetails with doctrines of resurrection:

•    Christianity and Islam speak of bodily resurrection, often interpreted as miraculous reconstitution.

•    If God operates through or beyond physical laws, then information conservation could be the substrate of
     divine memory—a cosmic ledger from which souls are restored.

•    In this view, God doesn’t need to “remember” in the human sense—He simply accesses the totality of
      spacetime’s informational structure.



This touches on deep questions of identity:

•    If your body decomposes and your atoms disperse, but the pattern of your being remains encoded, are you
     still “you” if that pattern is restored?

•    Is resurrection a matter of reassembly, simulation, or continuity of consciousness?




Nowadays robots programmed with all available information about deceased people can mimic their personality and knowledge. There's also "life logging" whereby people record their daily lives with video. Five terabytes of information would cover a lifetime.

But such technology, even if integrated with a cloned body and brain of the deceased, still merely simulates the dead.

In the article The Bible On Cold Cases(#207) I suggest that time travel, which is not ruled out by the laws of physics, could potentially restore the dead by retrieving them from before they died. I now suggest, based on Copilot's analysis, that the indestructibility of information is another possibility for resurrection — their restoration requiring God-like computational power.

Criminals who trust in atheism and commit suicide to escape retribution, may find to their horror that there's no escape!



Wigram, G.V. Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament, Ninth Edition, Samuel Bagster & Sons, pp 44 & 176

Copilot. Cartoon image of Resurrection [AI-generated]. 2025.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/

Copilot. Response to queries about Information. 2025.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/


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