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A View from the Confluence of Faith and Science

A VIEW FROM THE CONFLUENCE OF FAITH AND SCIENCE

Much appreciation to: Yuval Harari and Jared Diamond, Gerald Schroeder and Hue Ross, and Moses

Evolution by natural selection is one of the best-substantiated theories in science…Evolutionists

Only one text describes what scientists have since discovered – the Big Bang…Cosmologists

Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities… have been clearly seen …Creationist

Faith

Conscience (ethos), Prophecy (revelation), Reason (logic), and Acts (demonstration)

No matter the particular path(s) – only Faith begets Belief

Scientific discoveries continue to illuminate to controversial Beliefs

Question: Is it incongruous to re-examine faith-allied claims in the light of Science?

 Genesis

 Creationists provided Scientific guidance before Theological arguments

No matter the genesis of inspiration, whether – vision incited by revelation, reason conferred by science, or the natural entangled with the transcendental – faith must be cultivated to engender affection, and engaged to actualize potential. This precept is fundamental; everything that exist and everything we are derives from this TripleLux. It is expressed poignantly by the familiar affirmation – faith without works is dead; said in context – inspiration begets cultivation, which begets actualization, e.g. Creation.

Creation exudes Cultivation (synchronization) and Actualization (resiliency)

Question: What are some plausible explanations as to the Inspiration for creation?

Science

Science provides systematic verification of facts, truths, and inference regarding faith

Observation of cultivation and examination of actualization have increased scientific knowledge regarding cosmology, ecology, and anthropology exponentially; inspiration was considered too nebulous for scientific analysis. Given the interdependency of these three high science disciplines, it is reasonable to conclude they share the same modus of inspiration. Prior to the confluence of these high science disciplines, creationism – presented in just thirty-one succinct verses – provided the only complimentary account. This scientific tsunami has given inescapable gravity to but one term, Creator.

Scientific Cosmology coincides with Creationism

Scientific Ecology coincides with Creationism

Question: Can Anthropology coincide with Cosmology/Ecology, but not Creationism?

Cosmology

 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…Gen. 1: 1-5

Cosmology is the scientific discipline that investigates the origin and development of the universe. While theories abound, the one exhibiting credible correlation between faith and reason is referred to as the Big Bang. Cosmologists describe the universe as the production of an intelligent beginner and a first cause event – from great nothingness.

The COBE and Hubble satellites enabled scientists to determine the precise tempo at which the universe transpired. In the only precise accounting of record, the six periods – evening (chaos – ereb) to morning (order – boqer) – to include a final period of reference (one earth orbit) – ranged from millions to but thousands of reference-based years. Corroboration and illumination of this written account by credible mathematical and cosmogenesis analysis gives rise to but one description – Creator.

Only one Beginning and Ending coincide with the Creation of the Universe

Question: If Creation of the Universe was the Beginning, what was the End objective?

Ecology

God called the vault “sky” (3.8B yrs.) – God called the dry ground “land”… the gathered waters he called “seas”… Let the land produce vegetation (2.0B yrs.) – Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the night (1.0B yrs.) – Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky (0.5B yrs.) – Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds (0.2B yrs.) Gen. 1: 6-25

Ecology is the scientific discipline that investigates organisms, physical surroundings, and the consequences of their interaction. Analysis of geophysical and fossil data has convinced scientists that the cooling of the earth and the appearance of water and sunshine proffered conditions conducive to the consequential-evolution of biological organisms. No matter debates regarding consequential-resiliency (e.g. global warming), the earth, atmosphere, plants, and animals form a highly complex relational-ecosystem, which boundaries must be understood and respected.

Elementary science, observation, and intuition, embolden the presumption that within the relational-ecosystem the simple gives rise to the more complex. However, molecular biologists have discovered single cell plants with hundreds of times the genetic information per cell as mammals, but lack a plausible explanation as to the origin of either genome. No matter the possible scientific incongruity, the quest for planets evidencing hydro potentiality advances. Only one explanation coincides with earth’s genetically rich relational-ecosystem and congruent cosmological periodicity – Creator.

The Biblical account attests that biological organisms bringing forth after their own kind

Question: Does 2B yrs. of composition within the boundaries of kind refute Evolution?

Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific discipline that studies human beings and cultures. It is perhaps the most intriguing of all human interests, besides critical life saving therapies and protocols. Who are we (relationship), why are we here (purpose), and where did we come from (origin)? While relationship and purpose harbor overarching insight, for context and consistency we’ll follow the trail of origin to its intersection with the others.

Sapiens

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground…Gen. 2: 7

Biologically, modern humans are a part of the Homo genus and Sapiens species, of which there were many other species to include Erectus, Ergaster, and Neanderthal; only Homo sapiens survive. Credible scientific investigations repeatedly confirm the sudden not consequential-evolutionary appearance of Homo sapiens. Evolutionists continue to search for a direct link to other Homo genus, contending that Homo sapiens are mammal class evolutionary organisms, and like plants and other animals, are the progeny of the same relational-ecosystem. Further scientific scrutiny reveals that Homo sapiens genetic code is hugely different from other Homo species.

Unlike other Homo genus, Sapiens are the Creators direct handiwork, not consequential-evolution

Question: Why is it critical that Evolutionists directly link all Homo geniuses?

Spirit

Then the Lord…breathed into his nostrils the breath of life …Gen. 2: 7

Despite smaller stature and smaller brains than Neanderthals, Sapiens evidence incomparably advanced cognition and imagination, exhibited by no other Homo genus. The agility biologist, psychologist, and social scientists describe as super-intelligence, derives from impartation of prescient-connection unbounded by time, space, or matter.

The Creator breathed (imparted) His own eternal life spirit into Homo sapiens, not oxygen

Soul

 …and the man became a living being…Gen. 2: 7

Homo sapiens uniqueness – the ability to see what did not exist as though it were, to modify ecosystem relationships to their own advantage, to achieve sufficient caloric intake in a fraction of the time and effort required by other Homo species, and to travel the breath of the planet – derives not from consequential-evolution, but impartation of spirit and then animation of reason, interests, and creativity, this screams Creator.

Th Creator’s life spirit transformed the corporeal and synaptic into the conscious and sentient

Question: What does the gift of Soul and Spirit suggest about Relationship and Purpose?

 

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The Google God and Facebook Faith

THE GOOGLE GOD AND FACEBOOK FAITH

 Dare to Defriend and Not Know

The Google god is not an archetype, neither does it profess or possess any creative potentiality. The transcendence of the Google god derives from its archival and bridling of big data by the wisdom of referendum; transcendence rises and falls along with the page rank of the petition, called a search in Google theology. Like the torch, kerosene lamp, and light bulb before it, the Google god illuminates, but it is the only one of the four with potential for unintended and unperceived self-deception. While the Google god invites seekers to be omnipresently informed, it can’t prevent the onset of superficial omniscience or vaporous illusions of intellectual omnipotence.

For many, the Google god’s prolific ability to connect the curious with dynamic facts and figures, and to transport knowledge and perception from oblivion to digital presence, is in fact god-like. So prescient is the Google god, discerning how and why seems no more ambitious than simply discerning when and where. Impressed with the Google god’s apparent proficiency, many discount the reality that this digital matchmaker frequently traffics in unsubstantiated and unqualified references. In the absence of cogent inquiry, experience, and vetted source materials, indeterminate references beget errant inference, which beget twins: context free supposition and beguiling subterfuge (BS).

The Google god satisfies the most pernicious itch of the age, instant gratification. With no more than a few keystrokes or smartphone swipes, the Google god is presumed to confer sufficient acuity so as to challenge a bonfire of experience with no more than factoid marinated kindling. Bonfire informed diagnoses by board certified physicians, are often impugned by patients intoxicated by context free web factoids. Nevertheless, the Google god’s standing remains undiminished; instant gratification syndrome derives from the disposition of the seeker, not premeditated technology treachery.

Instant gratification often manifests rudiments of narcissism. Instant gratification narcissism craves presently unattainable personal accomplishment and unmerited relationship fidelity. However, one needn’t commiserate, Facebook Faith considered the ultimate in affirming social agency, is available over-the-keyboard. Facebook Faith allows the offline you, to create and nurture an otherwise unattainable online you. While gods normally do the creating, Facebook Faith also exhibits transcendent god-like power; it allows you to create a virtual autobiographical you, in your own imagined image.

The first fracture in the Facebook Faith continuum occurs when you can no longer ascertain which is the corporeal-synaptic you, the one in front of the screen or the one on the screen. You needn’t worry; by the power of Facebook Faith, you can turn the on screen you, into the you the you in front of the screen prefers, thus eliminating the confusion of who’s who. Facebook Faith clearly evidences pandemic potential; friends beget followers, who beget instagrams, well known side affects of digital narcissism.

Instant gratification narcissism addicts insist on knowing, seeing, acquiring, and being in the now. The addicted can be seen everywhere peering hypnotically into small mobile anti-social electronic prostheses. Instant gratification narcissism inspired by Facebook Faith evidences an incontrovertible progression:

Stage 1: The on screen you deprives the corporeal-synaptic you of informed emotional feedback.

Stage 2: Both you and your on screen friends are overwhelmed creating more endearing versions of your on screen selves.

Stage 3: Disengaging from the screen no longer returns you to the potent presence of your corporeal-synaptic self.

Stage 4: The corporeal-synaptic you craves tactile and emotional contact, but has little inter-personal skill by which to socially engage others.

Facebook Faith leaves the corporeal and digital you in the now but more isolated and emotionally estranged than ever. You are an un-convicted co-conspirator in your own scripted digital autobiography. In this now, dispassionate hook-ups stand in for the tedious thrill of discovery and romance. In this now there is no growth borne on the seas of rejection or impetuous unexplainable embrace.

Evidencing a mutual identity of interests, the Google god and Facebook Faith prophesy a paradise of social and professional connectivity, personal enlightenment, and endless engagement with a variety of new friends and interests. However, in this paradise where intimacy varies in accordance with flexible privacy settings, you’ve somehow and for some reason become praise addicted and easily insulted. Because there are many more digital-incantations than corporeal-synaptic you, your emotional state requires continuous dynamic recalibration; you confuse yourself and others.

The only you that matters possesses an essential essence that can only be touched where the virtuous and immoral you coalesce, the soul. There you may be disconnected yet engaged, informed but disinterested, ungrateful but nevertheless accountable, unapologetically entitled but neither presumptive nor dismissive; here there is no judgment. This is the place where the creator embraces you in love that preserves intimacy, where faith imparts truth and light that enables desire to court conviction, and where true friends summon you to be no more or no less than the one and only you.

Dare to defriend and not know.