The complex plane includes imaginary numbers, necessary to understand the full range of physical reality.
If you have seen the movie
The Final Season, you know that it is based on the true story of the Norway, Iowa baseball team. This little town of 500 consistently produced champions who defeated far larger schools. History is replete with examples of underlings whose invisible, immeasurable determination beat the odds to triumph over foes far superior on paper. The spiritual trumps the physical; the unseen trumps the seen.
In an earlier post, titled Seen and Unseen, I promised to develop a second line of evidence that the universe was created out of nothing we can see—but not out of nothing altogether. I argued that it was made out of the spiritual.
Team spirit, such as that of Norway, Iowa, makes my point. Something which cannot be seen or measured proves more important to victory than size or numbers.
We see an analogy to this in mathematics. Imaginary numbers are a relatively late development. They do not represent physical items such as stones or loaves of bread that we can actually pick up and handle, add to or take away from. Nonetheless, these “imaginary” entities prove to be absolutely crucial to representing the full range of physical reality.
Let us move beyond mathematics to the greatest figure in history. Jesus is an example of a man who possessed none of the visible trappings which are generally considered requisites for success, and yet on the strength of invisible characteristics, such as love, faith, determination and bravery he made an impact which has steadily widened over two thousand years.
Likewise, the history of Joan of Arc absolutely defies any literally materialistic explanation.
If the Bible’s thesis is correct, the master/servant relationship between spiritual and physical is not surprising, for those things which can be seen were made out of those which cannot be seen: the physical out of the spiritual. Because it is more ultimate, the spiritual can trump the physical.
It seems that the things that cannot be seen are sometimes more real than those that can.
Lotteries, casinos, race tracks—gambling is all the rage in the United States. Whether driven by the lure of quick wealth, the thrill of winning and losing, or obsessive behavior, it is widespread and sucking in more and more people. 
