Every living cell carries in common life’s genetic “grammar”, including human cells. The cosmic codes of evolving “transubstantiation” are to Christian religion evidence of Divine Presence in the deep purposes of intelligent design, of intentional symbiosis. The implosions of ecologic, economic, religious and civil networks, happening in these times, are consequences of self-undoing. The radical reading and conversion of humankind to nature’s sustainable symbioses are urgencies above all other.
Pope Benedict’s social encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” directly addresses the “grammar [which] sets forth ends and criteria for its [nature’s] wise use, not its reckless exploitation.” (Daniel Finn, “Economics of Charity”, COMMONWEAL, August 14, 2009, pp 8-10) Finn observes, “…this analogy [natural law as nature’s grammar] has not been employed in any previous encyclical.” It is Pope Benedict’s clear attempt to cast “natural law tradition in a manner more accessible to contemporary ears.”
Symbiotic life is nature’s word and work. Words standing alone do not make grammar. To work, grammar supposes word-meanings and sense of connection. The rational meanings of words together are what make grammar work. Language and content evolve together; the grammar of natural law must first be learned before the content of language can be understood, before we can come to an informed sense of ourselves. The “evolution of symbiosis” is about natural law grammar. “Benedict’s grammar analogy acknowledges that languages develop [evolve] over time…in fundamental continuity with the past.” (ID)http://www.secondenlightenment.org/The%20Evolution%20of%20Symbiosis.pdf
NATURAL LAW [Prologue to “Primary Scripture”]
“The premise of “Primary Scripture” is that the essential lessons edifying all consciousness are communicated uninterruptedly in Nature, and that in their natural place, humans commune with divinity—The Source. Natural reason (complexity consciousness) is a self-renewing genesis. Nature’s consciously enduring word/ work is God’s.
“Introspective nature-consciousness authenticates Earth life; but because of humankind’s ignorance, arrogance, and egoistic greed-obsession, societal sensitivity toward nature has been trashed; the poison of humankind’s anti-social disconnect diseases civilizations with mortal conflicts.
”The geologian Thomas Berry calls for societal awakening to an ecozoic awareness. In The DREAM of the EARTH, Father Berry says: “Professional education should be based on an awareness that Earth is itself the primary physician, primary revelation of the divine, primary scientist, primary technologist, primary commercial venture, primary artist, primary educator, primary agent in whichever activity we find human affairs”. (Quoted with the author’s permission)
“If humankind would desist from its self-undoing, it needs to recapture its naturally instinctual and sustaining consciousness, relocate its societies in harmonious relationships with global Earth life, and become a conserver of life’s diversity rather than its destroyer. Except for the fundamental fact of essential, codependent relationships, the physical/ moral basis of vitality, of Natural Law, all other law pales in meaning and effect.
“Humans waste themselves and Earth life unless they conform their living to the codified scripture of the NATURALIS SACRAMENTUM ORDINIS.
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"Nature was trashed" because of Man's sin. Starting with Adam and Eve. God created everything and called it good. Everything was perfect unitl man messed it up. There was no death, disease, or sickness in the world before the "fall" of man.
Humans waste themselves because they are not "living sacrifces" to the glory of God.
People can convince themselves to believe what they want, but that does not make it true.
You use terminology that does not make sense to me. Does evolution have a mind of its own. Do you believe "evolution" is the designer of the universe.
I believe the designer is God.
You make assumptions without evidence. What prood is there that fossil fuels existed before the presence of man?
"Prior life developments, for example, are essential agencies in human cells, e.g., in the DNA of mitochondria and plastids."
You are placing limits on the designer. Are we smarter than God? Symbiosis is not evidence of life by molecules to man evolution. But is evidence for a designer who used common designs in the creation of different organisms.
"People can convince themselves to believe what they want, but that does not make it true."
Agreed. That's why I am very critical of the assumptions used by the elite scientific community. Example: The belief that oil is a fossil fuel. There really is no definative proof of this assumption. Coal on the other hand I can belief is a fossil fuel. Fossils and artifacts have actually been found in layers of coal. Coal is the result of a world wide catastrophic event that included flooding and volcanic eruptions.
"evolutionary consciousnes" — awareness of the fact of evolution occurring in nature
"designer God" — intelligent design — I believe the same though in perhaps a much different way — God is designer of the process of open and ongoing creation, what is evolution.
I do not place limits on God. I do believe that God puts limits on us to conform behavior to laws of nature. We are admonished in scripture not to put God to the test. Imposing expectations on God to save us from our foolishness is "putting God to the test".
"Coal on the other hand I can belief is a fossil fuel. Fossils and artifacts have actually been found in layers of coal. Coal is the result of a world wide catastrophic event that included flooding and volcanic eruptions." BINGO. Organic hydrocarbons, oil included, are biological in origin. Carbon dating gives a credible chronolgy that identifies man's presence at a much later date.
http://www.secondenlightenment.org/WORD%20LIGHT%20LOVE,%20the%20Genetics%20of%20Symbiosis.pdf
http://www.secondenlightenment.org/DIVINE%20INSTANCE,%20Purpose,%20Symbiosis,%20Eucharist.pdf
Do I believe in molecules to man evolution? No. Do I believe in the variations within plant and animal kinds over time because of natural selection. Absolutely. But the later does not prove the former. Let's not blur the lines between the two because there is a huge difference. Molecules to man evolution requires a gain in genetic information. Processes like natural selection and mutations result in less genetic information.
"There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this." - Dr Werner Gitt, Director and Professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology
Believing God can create different organisms and systems using similar designs in each does not "put him to the test."
We really don't know that oil came from biological material. It is an assumption based on the fact the hydrocarbons found in both oil and biological material. Girders in bridges and the wings of airplanes use similar designs. This does not mean airplanes were once bridges. It is evidence of a common designer.
Carbon dating can not be used to determine the accurate age of anything because one must use assumpions in the calcualtions. It may be useful to determine approximate age relationships if the "right" assumptions are used. Carbond dating is used by both "billions of years" evolutionists and "thousands of years" creationists to determine age relationships. Both creationists and evolutionists use assumptions in carbon dating calculations to support their views.
Evolutionists use fossils to detemine the age of the rock they are found in. They also claim to know the age of fossils because of the age of the rock they found the fossils in. Billions of years is an assumption.
Matter is a qualification of energy (spirituality). Energy, qualified in forms apt for its complexity, expands in consciousness. Matter gives rise to information because it is aptly qualified energy.
Hold on to your hat, the pace of evolution is quickening in public consciousness.
Absolute truth does not fail. I'm not sure we are seeing a religious collapse. In fact trials and tribulation tend to make people search for God and understanding of his ways. We are seeing a economic collapse becasue we have rejected truth. When people reject truth, evil power reigns. Our nation has "killed" God, we are killing ethics, and the last road sign to the path of national destruction is when we begin to kill man. And this is exactly what abortion is...a sign of national decay. And the national healthcare being discussed promotes euthanasia. When the government forces people into a national healthcare system, I call that evil power not evolution. Tightened government control over people is not a new concept. It has been tried and leads to tryanny because people reject God's truth.
Human populations (corporate consumerism) have no respect for natural life. We are locked in a “religious” culture that thinks and acts as if God wants us to deplete nature to its death. That is total mindlessness. God will not rescue us from the folly of our “stupidity” and willful blindness.
You say “Tightened government control over people is not a new concept. It has been tried and leads to tryanny because people reject God's truth.” For “government control” one might substitute “religious absolutism”, and the statement is equally true.
Care for one another, for ecology, is not only a moral mandate, but it implicates a political mandate. The present healthcare system (mixing politics with religion) is bankrupt because there is too much corporate self-interest and profiteering at the expense of nature and everyone. The divine/ human aspect of healthcare is all but ignored.
Actually you and I think alike in many ways. Our major difference it seems to me is that you are focused in the past, even “locked” in the past. I respect that we must advance in continuity with an informed awareness of the past, but I think it is more purposeful, more “religious”, more consistent with "truth", with divine purposes, to focus more on the future.
God's truth includes natural truth, and the intentional pursuit of both.
Enviromentalism is becoming less and less about protecting ecology and more and more about control over the masses. More and more regulations are being placed upon the US but not in other countries such as China. This makes it hard if not impossible for corporations and private companies of all sizes to compete globally. This is one of the methods used by the elite globalists to make the US weaker in order to promote global governance.
I am not sure exactly what you mean by "religous absolutism." Can a "religion" tighten control over people and lead to tyranny because God's truth has been rejected? Absolutely. This is why seeking to understand God's truth is so important. "Religions (belief systems of man)" can be very destructive. We don't need "religion' as such, but a relationship with the creator God.
I am more focused on the future than you might think. I've read the end of the Bible. I don't understand it all, but I do know that the earth is going to be destroyed. Does that mean we should not worry about the enviroment? Absolutely NOT. We need to be good stewards of what God has given us and this includes being aware of how are activities effect the envioroment. That being said there is no comparison between abortion of human life and destruction of "global ecologies." God values human life much more than the rest of creation. We have been created in God's image. God has given us the opportunity to become his "Sons." God made us from the dust of the ground and gave us life. All of earthly creation except man obeys God's will and the natural laws God has made because they were created as "robots." Only man has been given a choice to love God or not love Him...to obey Him or disobey Him. We have been given a spirit and a soul. To place the same value on all living creatures and "green things(as God's word states)" is to reject God's truth.
I am more concerned about a person's eternal destination than I am about
so called global warming or "saving the whales." The earth is going to be destroyed. Human life is eternal. How we respond to God's truth will determine if we will spend eternity in the presence of God or separated from him. God's truth is "absolutism" John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. It does not get any more absolute than this.
My understanding of God's truth is not popular with humanists, spiritualists, and many others. But the truth is the natural world is corrupt and is decaying because of man's sin. Man has no power to stop it. Our attempts at trying to control it are futile because it is God's soverign will. He is the one who created the laws of thermodynamics.
Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Once again I will try to be very clear here. I am not condoning man made enviormental disasters. We need to use what God has given us wisely.
While it is said “comparisons are odious”, it is by way of comparisons that we learn. For example, perhaps the most convincing lesson why we need religion comes from the experience of irreligion. When we behave irreligiously toward each other we become truly odious to each other.
The “analogies of reciprocals” reveal the affirmative face of the coin of learning what religion is. Reciprocal accountability affirms the way of symbiosis, while disregard for reciprocal accountability thrusts upon us the experience of frustrated relationships and the frustration of religious accountability, what is “irreligion”. http://www.secondenlightenment.org/Reciprocity,%20accountable%20culture.pdf
Everything we know and believe about God is by way of “analogic consciousness.” The greatest teacher of religion, of God, for all times, is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the carpenter’s son. An answer to the question “what good can come from Nazareth?” is: the supreme lesson that religious learning is by way of analogy, by way of parables and comparisons.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan (a people regarded as insignificant) teaches by way of comparison, i.e., comparing the insignificant Samaritan to priests and the “significant”, and the disregard of the “significant” for the plight of the person in deathly peril from thieves in contrast to the regard of the insignificant Samaritan who rescued the sorry victim and returned him/her to health.
Today the sorry victim of thievery is nature. Where are the priests, the bishops, the preachers and the corporate significant? Who are the thieves? We, who disregard the vulnerability of nature and continue to rob her of the largesse of her vitality.
Analogic learning exposes to us in our behavior and belief who we really are. The leadership of institutional religion and of corporate exploitation, and us—all of us sinners—the “significant” ones, still exhibit disregard for nature, disregard for the “insignificant.”
http://ncronline.org/news/justice/business-educators-meet-focus-ignatian-values