GaryCGibson - 02:17pm Mar 11, 2005 EDT (#240 of 240)

The physical Universe exists within the will of God. At the largest and smallest scales it's parameters are unknowable except as revealed by Non-Contingent Being.. The scalable universe is rational.

Epistemological criteria for human intelligence and its nature are necessarily an issue with those contemplating the ability of humanity to recognize issues such as what is or isn't true,what truth is, if truth is immutable and unchanging, if people are able to formulate true ideas regarding the cosmos or subjective neoro-psychology and neuro-psychological cosmologies with veracity...etc.

Postulates that are answered more than tautologuously would be an element of a process. Is extra sensory perception a phenomenon of the non-locality of waveforms and sub-atomic particles/waves, and a number of other questions and criterion pertain to what one postulates. In considering various questions regarding the nature of the physical universe and its history, as well as the contents of the Bible it is helpful to accurately comprehend the contents of each and whatever else is used for rational investigation tools and studies. Some still believe the Big Bang theory instead of the hyper-inflation theory with a space-time inflaton ballon instead of a detonation of a singularity into a pre-existing vaccuum.

Cosmologies will come and go, farther and better structured cosmologies will arise, and the Codex Sinanticus will be put online over the next four years to give the earliest exisiting bible in the original greek to scholars and others that want to see what was written in the first to fourth centuries without the possible alterity of scribes in subsequent millenia. Each element of the cosmos and the Bible may be integrated and contemplated,humans see through a glass darkly, and mathematicians must utilize non-visualizable mathematics to model some super-string and M-Theory cosmologies.

Many of the ideas formed about the Universe are simply Kantian and phenomenal in character-yet not without purpose. Even this post excerpt about water changes as understanding changed... " In the beginning God said let their be light, and their was light. Of course it might have taken several billion years which were to God as a day figuratively speaking before human eyeballs could evolve to process incoming photons via a chemical reaction in the retina through bionerve pathways into images and forms in the brain of phenomenalities of the 'outside' world.

In the meantime the most abundant element in the Universe formed-hydrogen, as well as other elements through star formations and nuclear reactions following the coalessence of waveform particles through gravitational force and pressure. Water (H20) was eventually abundant, and the water was divided from the heavens and the Earth eventually...after enough material swirled into compaction to form a planet such as the Earth, enough water fell to Earth's surface from 'the heavens' to permit an oceanic slosh of water to accumulate.

Water ice is still plentiful in 'the heavens'. Heaven of course may be different things at different times to different people in different languages and cultural contexts. Freedom is free, or svaboda as those clever Russian rocket scientists might say, yet interpreting natural history and finding present technologies than can advance space exploration toward the future can be a tedious process requiring much inventiveness and liberal determination.

The heaven that God has for-himself...that is,not the one that people think of as space but the one that is the pure realm of potential and actual forms expressed by the infinetly creative will of God, is a difficult concept for humanity to comprehend sometimes, yet emulating the infinite goodness of God so far as anyone can comprehend even a bit of anything about the creator all everything, is worth doing in creative technological research."