God is dead, long live God's Grand Design

Just came across the following which I think clearly supports my four basic forces based theory of evolution as also that seeds of everything including human intelligence were sown in the very first spiral.

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The Big Bang and Augustine's seven levels of
creation-- a speculation

Augustine's theory of creation is not widely known, no doubt because he continued to develop his thoughts on this throughout his life. So, like his concept of developmental seeds or engines imbedded in nature, it's in pieces scattered throughout his (many) writings. And these vary as his thoughts matured (the seeds grew).

Still, it is the best I have come across. Here are some of his main ideas as I see them. Others may not agree with my interpretations.

Augustine correctly associated time with change, perhaps one of the oldest principles of philosophy. If there is no change, there is no time. In addition, Augustine also associates the 7 days of creation, in which 7 changes were made, as 7 cognitive states (levels or categories). So rather than reading the events of Gen.1-2 as occurring on 7 days, I read them as the 7 levels of creation Thus the Big Bang included the seven days of creation as 7 levels of creation which occurred all at once or nearly so.

But, you say, are you trying to tell me that life was created during the Big Bang ?

Yes. life, by which I mean intelligence, was created during the Big Bang, but only in the form of what Augustine called "seeds". These are future developments, some of them continuing developments...

For a fuller account of these, see the account below.

- Roger

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/may/22.39.html

" Augustine draws out the following core themes: God brought everything into existence in a single moment of creation. Yet the created order is not static. God endowed it with the capacity to develop. Augustine uses the image of a dormant seed to help his readers grasp this point. God creates seeds, which will grow and develop at the right time. Using more technical language, Augustine asks his readers to think of the created order as containing divinely embedded causalities that emerge or evolve at a later stage. Yet Augustine has no time for any notion of random or arbitrary changes within creation. The development of God's creation is always subject to God's sovereign providence. The God who planted the seeds at the moment of creation also governs and directs the time and place of their growth.

Augustine argues that the first Genesis Creation account (1:1–2:3) cannot be interpreted in isolation, but must be set alongside the second Genesis Creation account (2:4–25), as well as every other statement about the Creation found in Scripture. For example, Augustine suggests that Psalm 33:6–9 speaks of an instantaneous creation of the world through God's creative Word, while John 5:17 points to a God who is still active within creation.

Further, he argues that a close reading of Genesis 2:4 has the following meaning: "When day was made, God made heaven and earth and every green thing of the field." This leads him to conclude that the six days of Creation are not chronological. Rather, they are a way of categorizing God's work of creation. God created the world in an instant but continues to develop and mold it, even to the present day."
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Here are my comments on the above:


Yes indeed, Augustine's seven levels will comprise the first spiral in terms of four basic interactions and would contain the seeds of clay, minerals, plants, animals, apes, man and supermen (expected) according to my book Self-Designed Universe. These seeds will come to fruition when the first spiral joining lineraly and to which I call superimpositionally will eventually give rise to the bigger spiral spanning the whole of our earth as described below from the first chapter of my book Self Designed Universe as also from the blog www.selfdesigneduniverse.blogspot.com

http://selfdesigneduniverse.blogspot.com/2010/09/chapter-1-continued.html

If anybody wants to have an idea of linear and superimpostional addition of spirals one may refer to my most simple figure below.

Otherwise imagine that one day of your life comprises of four phases and that the superimpositional addition of linear addition of any number of days and finally of all days of your life will also comprise of four phases. Obviously linear and superimpostional addition of all days of your life will give you the four phases of childhood, youth, middle age and old age.