I wrote a short essay entitled "Bootstrapping God" which I published on
my then nascent web site in 1999. Influenced by several books I
was digesting at the time, including The
Physics of Immortality by Frank Tipler, After the Clockwork Universe by
Sally J. Goerner and Pierre Tielhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man, the thought
awakened in me during the spring of that year that perhaps God was
indeed a future event. It occured to me that given our limited
scope, it may be that,
as Chardin speculated, the increase in complexity and intelligence that
seems to be the teleology of Life will ultimately give rise to an Omega
Point of effectively infinite intelligence in what is for us the
future. And it is that future event that is reaching back and
forming the past, as it were,
to pull the past forward to Him.
I have since come to believe that the miracle of Creation will never
actually lend itself
to a human level of understanding, beyond the very Word of God, which
is availble from a single source: the Bible. Big bang
theories, eleven
dimensional multiverses, steady-state versus open versus closed
universes
... these are all concepts that merely scratch the surface of what is
actual and beg the question as to what is real in any event. I do
not believe that we, as a species, in this modality
of existence, will ever know the truth of our origin or true purpose
outside of a Biblical context, and certainly not with the limited tools
available through science ... not
until God intervenes more directly in human affairs.
I have come to believe that Faith is the reason were are here; to learn
and grow in our reservoir of Faith. To that
end, the intellectual essence of this universe will always remain
elusive, I
think. Emergence masks mysteries which I believe we will never
fully understand ... at least not without a modicum of faith. In
any
event, the original short essay, "Bootstrapping
God," is short, quaint, has at least one dead link, and represents
a time
in my life of spiritual growth ... the layout is clunky and very early
web. Enjoy.