AXIOMS OF EVOLUTION: Where Conscience comes from

At the beginning of the book RELIGION & CIVILITY (Sylvester L Steffen, 2004, third book of the Second Enlightenment Trilogy) is an Overview with 10 axioms (modified below), corollaries that derive from essential cosmic continuity. These insights are experience-fact-bases by which to better understand personal place and relationship in the cosmos and the moral logic for other-concern. Jesus stated that He didn’t come to replace the Law but to fulfill it. The all-compelling Law is natural scripture.

1. Early occurrences in big bang wave-expansion recur more subtly in later times in evolved energy/structure complexities.

2. The energy/substance of the cosmos, of conscious embodiment, derives from and is qualified in/by quantum (wave/particle) relativity and inherent uncertainties.

3. All matter retains potentials of inherent uncertainty and is ever subject/object of/to the vagaries of openness to contingent necessity. The wave/particle characterization of energy/matter, exchange from masslessness to mass and from mass to masslessness, is a gravitation phenomenon of electromagnetism and of matter maintenance.

4. From its origins, the cosmos is essentially transformed in and by "purpose", that is, in/by communications having sustainable outcomes, thus, the “intelligent design” characterization of the cosmos. Though human consciousness is subtly diversified and the human pursuit of knowledge is now self-reflective, knowledge and consciousness derive from and still serve evolving cosmic purposes.

5. The reflex complexity of energetic resonance inheres in the tensional dynamics of molecular structures and coheres with the consciousness of self-reflective energy. Social coherency builds on the trustworthy bases of proven intension (faith in things unknown) and intention (the rational choosing of the greater good—Summum Bonum).

6. In cosmic processing electrons are transformational messengers, the carriers of light. With respect to self-reflectivity, light (the photon) is more than metaphor, it is the agency of neural structure/insight (conscience). Light is to intelligence as intelligence is to conscience, as reason is to faith, and as science is to religion.

7. Nature is the paradigmatic model of continuity complexity that implicates energy-resonance in sub-atomic, atomic and molecular synergisms, which account for the continuity of subtle forms that weave the social strategies of intentional human design. Organic evolution is a complex of natural stratagems. [A "paradigm" is an in-place model that characterizes a pattern or patterns, for example, processes upon which nature evolves sustainably.]

8. The electromagnetic spectrum of star-glow waxes and wanes in its power to illuminate. And so it is with dated consciousness and human institutions. "Lucifers" burn out. Except for resurrection and renewal, the light of human consciousness fades and fails to illuminate. Consciousness in the light matrix is emotive, feminine passion, the sustaining energy of the process of becoming — Eucharist — the inherent/coherent compulsion of transformational vitality.

9. The “General Theory of Quantum-electric Relationship” states that truth and justice, like cosmic gravitation (original centricity), are distributive, expansive, not centrist, that is, that they are qualified and quantified in evolved relationships but remain open to electro-magnetic transubstantiation.

10. The “Special Theory of Quantum-electric Relationship” states the equivalency of energy and matter, of spirituality and materiality, of soul and substance, of the religious and the secular, of the heavenly and the earthly. The ill-conceived culture of arbitrarily divided realms (spirit/matter) cleaves consciousness and confounds conscience — the continuity of right-mindedness.