May God Bless and Keep You

As is my usual habit of finding God in science, I have been following a YouTube channel called Suspicious0bservers,which covers solar phenomena. The main proposition of the channel owner, Ben Davidson, is the earth and sun's magnetic fields are linked. This connection shows a correlation between events on the sun's surface with events such as earthquakes or storms on the earth. He also shows many other effects of the sun on the earth such as the fact that the sun is the overwhelming factor in determining global warming or cooling (imagine that!). His findings are covered in greater detail on the Suspicious 0bservers Website.

CME - 10/1/15

One of Ben's more interesting observation is something he calls "earth-facing solar quiet." His long-term and frequent observations show that when a particularly active sunspot or group of sunspots breaches the horizon and begins to face the earth, they begin to go electromagnetically "quiet." Currently, there is no scientific explanation for this phenomenon, except that it is often a predecessor of a Maunder Minimum.
This past week was an extreme example of the earth-facing solar quiet when the sun released eight huge coronal mass ejections (CME's) in a 3-day time period. In each case the erupting filaments remained quiet while facing the earth, and only released the CME's as they departed on the far horizon of the sun. This was documented in Suspicious 0bservers video log of October 2, 2015, titled "Earth Got Lucky, Huge CMEs."

CME - 9/30/15

When he said earth got lucky, he was right. Any one of these series of CME's could have blown through the earth's puny magentic field and fried every integrated circuit (IC) chip on the facing side of the earth. Since there was a series of CME's of this magnitude, it is likely they would have fried every IC chip on the earth that was not in a Faraday cage.
Just about every mechanical or electrical device we use today is controlled by IC chips, to include automobiles, telecommunications, power grids, factories, airplanes, water-purification plants and every other kind of infrastructure. The only operational devices left would be those controlled by vacuum tubes.
Most of the world's infrastructure would collapse. Some railroad systems could limp along using manual controls. Communications would be reduced to Morse code on old-time continuous wave radios. Few factories would be functional. Virtually no water, telephone, and power utilities would survive. In short order, the world would be reduced to the horse and buggy days. Truly the earth-facing solar quiet phenomenon spared the earth a major world-wide disaster.
Science has yet to propose a theory for the earth-facing solar quiet phenomenon, and most of the scientific community has been conspicuously ignoring it. I would propose that the cause of the earth-facing solar quiet is the Providence of God. The sunspots go quiet as they turn to face earth too regularly to be coincidental. Just as Jupiter was found to be a shield for earth against comets and meteors from the outer solar system, could the mysterious hand of Divine Providence be protecting the earth from dangerous solar flares? In Psalm 91:11, it reads:

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." (KJV)

Even if it turns out through further scientific investigation that the earth is in some resonant "sweet spot" where its tiny magnetic field could influence the massively larger magnetic field of the sun, wouldn't that be an indication of "Divine design" in the orbital mechanics of the solar system?
Does God send His angels to shield us against the harmful effects of the sun? In the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, Question 112, part 1, it states:

"God sends angels to minister to his purposes among bodily creatures. This sending or mission is not the dispatching of angels upon a journey. To be sent means to be present in a new place in which one was not present before, or to be present where one was but in a new way. An angel is present where it exercises or applies its powers, and not elsewhere. When God has an angel apply its powers to a creature, the angel is sent to that creature. God is the sender and the first principle of the effect produced by the angel sent; God is also the ultimate goal or final cause of the work so produced. The angel is God's minister or intelligent instrument; by its being sent it renders ministry to God."

Since the sun is a "bodily creature" of God, could he not send an angel to monitor and control the sun? This would be a mission traditionally assigned to the angelic choir of Virtues. Based on the events of the last week, it appears likely the Providence of God has spared us once again, and we should give Him our praise and thanksgiving for it.

The final question that comes to mind is this: How many times in the past has he spared the earth in similar manner?