Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Big History meets Pantheist Theology


God is the fact of space and time, matter and energy.

God is the fact of entropy.

God is the fact that this entropic universe somehow wound up with enormous energy and thus an enormous amount of time for things to happen.

God is the fact of the discrete parameters of matter/energy that determine a self-organizing universe.

God is the fact that this self organizing universe has indeed organized itself intricately and with endless novelty. 

God is the fact of the electromagnetic force, of gravity, and the awesome conflict by which their wrestling gives rise to a star. 

God is the fact of the photon, field and quanta, that carries news of the star throughout the universe. 

God is the fact of the strong force, so powerful yet so constrained, that allows the star, in its enormous heat, to bring forth a panoply of elements.

God is fact of the elements, which can be likened to an alphabet; the fact of their properties and combinations, which can be likened to syntax and sentence, which give rise to a creation, which can be likened to a great book.

God is the fact that elements and their combinations can evolve, and evolve, and evolve.

God is the fact of information, which is what evolves.

God is the fact of sentience, which is aware of information, responds to information. 

God is the fact of consciousness, which emerges out of sentience and its ability to respond to information.

God is the fact of the scientist who has created a mirror in which the universe can take a look at itself.

God is the fact that conscious beings can consciously create, that they can imagine, strategize, and actualize.

God is the fact of the self-governed life and the life in equilibrium.

God is the possibility of an at-one-ment of the knower and known, the one and the many, of world and idea.  Is this the end of big history?

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