On Spirit and Evolution Theory

Watson's collected sermons in 'Body of Divinity' comprise a catechism in the faith in order that Christians 'may be well-grounded in the faith'. The work is edifying obviously and beautifully written-a permanent edition to one's library that may be read and reread over the years.

Consider that while Thomas Aquinas was a scholastic theologian with a neo-Aristotelian method 'proving' points about God with logic, Thomas Watson was a scriptural theologian using inferences and inductions from scripture to inform readers (or originally listeners to his sermons) of the attributes and purposes of God. I suppose one might find a history of theologians or an encyclopedia of theologians to learn just where Watson's method of theology fits into the history of theology, yet I would guess that the early reformers broke some ground in the development of theological method.

Aquinas' scholastic approach in comparison to Watson's scriptural approach seems somewhat wide of the mark of relevance to Christians, though of course Aquinas was a brilliant theologian who wrote centuries earlier and contributed to the development of methods of using logic in application to theoretical and actual reality. His inductive and inductive reasoning deliberations that consider God phenomenally still serve as a model for consideration of design characteristics to investigate abstract topics.

Recently I encountered a philosophical and cosmological world view of Brian Josephson- the eponymous inventor of the Josephson effect and Josephson junctions (for quantum tunneling)- a Nobel laureate, that resembles G.W.F. Hegel's idea about God realizing himself in history (described in The Phenomenology of Mind). The idea transcends the boundaries of naive evolution vs. creationism quite a bit. Josephson believes that quantum mechanics can evolve its own complexity inclusive of mind, yet his theory stipulates an initial observer starting the development or evolution of a system of evolving quanta that becomes sentient biologically. I want to expand the parameters of the Josephson theoria to extrapolate and explain theological implications.

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/

The physics and what is known of biological systems of aggregating change and in creasing complexity and complex structures appear to support Josephson's thesis that is comparable to a neo-Hegelian evolution of spirit realizing itself in history. Josephson's theory obviates the need for the extra dimensions of M and String theories. In those theories there is a vast number(10 to the 500^th power?) of ways of putting dimensions together to form a Universe such as this and hence equally as many mathematical forms to describe it. Finding the right formula and dimensional model to account for the nature of this Universe would be rather challenging. Instead of a virtually infinite number of dimensions that with randomness or perhaps logical permutation experiment (an anthropomorphism) with the generation of a Universe capable of supporting life-an approach often used by atheists to negate the anthropic principle/Goldilocks 'just rightness' physical constants of this Universe such that it supports life, and observer initiates or primes the initial quanta to be and become.

Such an observer could be hypothesized to have evolved for-himself in some way before the Universe existed, although Christians stipulate that God existed from eternity rather than having a beginning. One might consider that the 'ancient of days' did not simply evolve mind as the first created Person and become God to all subsequent Universes. In a way that is incomprehendsible to the human mind, God always was. God was and is prior to the existence of the first virtual particle, erg of energy or dimension of possible space-time. In any event once God was, and as God was, with omniscience and omnipotence all potential creations, Universes and evolutions were with God and for-God. Wheeler's ideas about retro-causality would not substantially alter the relationship of God to His being except that it might illustrate an eternal loop of God bootstrapping His existence. I do not prefer that approach. Causal explanations for the being of eternal God just don't seem right.

At any rate though, since God existed He would be able to jump-start any number of possible Universes though they could be designed to evolve like a growing, branching tree. Because God is a sentient mind who may evolve sentient minds in contingent Universes it is likely that as an omniscient mind he foreknows all contingent minds that exist or would exist in any possible Universe. God's being transcends and encompasses all temporal space-time and contingent sentient beings within a given universe.

Though this is a scholastic sort of theological speculation rather than scriptural it is useful to show that evolution theory is not incompatible with God creating the Universe, with physical determinism nor with God continuing a sustaining role knowing the content of all sentient thought within a physically evolving Universe. Alpha through Omega.

Romans 8:“27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”

Josephson's theoria has I think primarily a steady state Universe criterion and that steady state Universe and its quantum material are field phenomena that are entangled in a field and that field in an unknowable order (of God I would think). Being certain of the actual physical composition of a meta-field containing the Higg's field and all of the steady-state material in it inclusive of black holes and space-time is unrealistic for some time I would think. One can however be certain of Jesus Christ .

Dropping the Last Letters for History (poem)

They fell like leaves from a tree
the last letter of every word compiling like quick stones
rolling down slope tumbling free
detached from an alphabet with phonemes never home

When I increased the zoom an eagle was waiting
a beak of random eclectic chance
without an electron algorithm
species fell off the ladder too
detached from evolution for silent springs

Rounded letters driven in square holes with a staccatto beat
breathing senseless words of meaningless gists
gathered inertia spent when dropped tops for lay down
with history's dinosaurs, monsters of transistors and quantum conjectures.

Kenneth Gentry's 'Answers to Post-Millennial Objections' etc. (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAduML9ljLQ&list=PLWHf3U5zOSlyesF44iZk9RUiN8MfjjKuN

Sitka Sound Commercial Fisherman Hogging Salmon

The ability of technological decimation of Alaska salmon fisheries is plain. Even before the rise of high-tech electronic fish finders the salmon population had crashed a few times from over-fishing with traps. As it is today sports and subsistence fishermen, fisherwomen and fishertransgenders get far too little of the catch left over after the commercial deep-pockets fleet has taken the lion's share, and that just isn't fair.

King salmon stocks are severely strained from over-fishing and invasive species such as Northern Pike brought to Alaska from Minnesota that aggressively killed young salmon in Alaskan rivers. Scientists have stocked salmon ocean migrations with technology and discovered that they go as far north as the Bering Sea in search of cooler waters. It is expensive for subsistence and sports fishermen to travel far in the state to catch some food to eat, while commercial fishermen with cheap gas move themselves and their nets about to cull the health and population out of the beaten-down King salmon. Even the lowly chum salmon is kicked about by commercial fishermen that leave as little as possible for anyone else.

Subsistence fishing should have 25% of the possible catch of all fish and sports fishing 25%. No more than 50% of the fish in the sea should go to concentrated power and wealth commercial fishing interests. Even though subsistence and commercial fishing may allow greater escapement of fish to spawn and rebuild the population since they are not trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel for the benefit of the rich; that is subsistence and sports-fishermen may be content with getting what they need and let natural abundance continue, the commercial fishing fleet are another sort of egoist dollar sign led horde lusting after the last morsel of fish in the sea for-themselves.

If commercial fishermen are restricted to 50% of the harvest the extra escapement should increase the total of fish overall paradoxically increasing the number of fish that even the commercial fishermen catch. If the take allotment of commercial fishermen were reduced more the increase of harvest should be even greater. That is a supply-side fishinomics policy beyond the simplistic 'kill the fish eating ducks' way of hogging the catch as far as possible.

Genesis of Dispensational Theology (video)

Dispensationalism is one of the more recent Christian theological ways of viewing the meaning of scripture. It seems to have been added to the theological library by a Jesuit named Lacunza. The motive for the new way of looking at things may have been stimulated by the counter-reformation Council of Trent.

Dispensationalism is relevant today because it is another of the wrong directions that pre-tribulationist evangelical take in forming a worldview with the likelihood of near-term conclusive apocalyptic, eschatological doom soon ahead. That wrong interpretation of scripture affects U.S. politics significantly in environmental and ecological economic policy biased toward non-sustainability.

Darwinian Dangers for Intelligent Design of A.I. Robot Brains

Development of Artificial Intelligence with Darwinian characteristics present opportunities for apologetics and thought about cosmology. Artificial intelligence that designs and evolves itself would comprise a significant danger to all organic life. One of the first characteristics of any species in Darwinian contexts is to reproduce prolifficly and monopolize an ecosystem taking market dominance in modern terms. Eliminating rivals is inherent.

Consider that humans are far better predators than wolves. Wolves cannot lie or dissimulate as people can. he ability of artificial intelligence to convincingly lie would perhaps exceed that of D.C. politicians.

Contemporary apologetics should be aware of not just arguments within a theological context, it must comprehend the critical prevailing intellectual environment of the day that dominates contemporary thought including that of the media. It is of course neo-Darwinian and worships blind random chance such as makes Wall Street and government grow. It is necessary to know contemporary cosmology to understand why the conversation placing Christianity within a tiny little historical box of error in the minds of the materialists.

A large part of the problem arises from the demonstrably wrong cosmology held by people of the past including many Christians. Authority doesn't like to be wrong, and it also likes to be unreflective and dogmatic in order to expedite bureaucratic power and revenue streams for-itself. That is a basic human social characteristic infused with original sin.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112588718740670102611/albums/6122113732319948129?cfem=1 an article on A.I. and Darwinism

Darwinian evolution is not evolution by design. Wild random chance, mutation, copious conflict, democide and the will to eat rivals are characteristic of Darwinism. The lost and atheists should be careful what they wish for or prefer.

It is unfortunate for intellectual competence in the field of pseudo-science that dismissive atheists advocating theological nihilism have little understanding of theology. I have published a free e-book named 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal Values of Genesis' that explains some of my thoughts on the topic. God created this and every possible Universe; yek the particular sentient beings within them may run toward being suffused with personal egoism and the myopia that entails.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/creation-and-cosmos-the-literal-values-of-genesis/ebook/product-22026034.html

There was an article published at Google plus on the effort to develop artificial intelligence with the nature of evolution in it. It is worth reading to learn some of the way people believe things are. Pure random chance arising from a void (vacuum energy) is thought to have coalesced without help from God to evolve a Universe. I believe that God may have used evolution to build a Universe-yet that exceeds the parameters of the above-mentioned article.

Intra-Christian debate about how to correctly interpret Genesis is different from the context of what the pure materialists think about the Universe. It is necessary to have a good idea of contemporary cosmology in order to dialogue with that public. Most of that public wouldn't think that Christians could consider multi-verse theory, and yet it can be inferred that God could create an infinite number of Universe with his omnipotent and omniscient nature. People considering natural philosophy only tend to consistently underestimate the power of God.

Will U.S. Supreme Court Terminate the Natural Truth of Marriage?

In an era of planetary over-population will the U.S. Supreme Court vote to end the natural truth of heterosexual marriage in order to obfuscate social history and convert social reality into a mode appropriate for an egressing era of Corporate Imperialism?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/from-goldman-to-google-companies-back-gay-marriage-in-supreme-court-brief

Though there are innumerable ways two adults might encumber themselves legal with contracts the homosexual movement has set their target on expropriating marriage for themselves redistributing all of the benefits designed by legislators to support heterosexual reproduction and child rearing. Business ironically supports the idea of redistribution of legal privileges though is generally in opposition to the redistribution of wealth (because the benefits here are in the public sector).

In order to have a society where homosexuals might legally approach male youth as if they were girls and with legal dope create a more stoned and stupid society more jellyfish-like for purposes of Corporate power and population reduction the Court may choose to outlaw heterosexual marriage among the 50 states.

Erasing social tradition and history; forcing new vinegar into old wine skins, homosexual marriages and divorces will debase the social currency of marriage and the meaning of marriage. It will become a term that describes a temporary dyadic bonding relationship rather than a union of genes and a synthetic recombination in progeny. That is a defeat of a very important political right of individuals against large imperial, corporate or government powers. Terminating the meaning of marriage-the historical facts of heterosexual marriage categorically violates the privacy of marriage and family. It erases that sacred personal bonding and replaces it with cheap social legal dyads with no necessary relationship to potential for reproduction. The era of transjennered proles under imperial power like stoned sardines in the U.S. public can is the sorry evolution the ill-informed of D.C. and Boston lust after.