Economics, Science, and Religion 10

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A. Creation, physically speaking, is a directed, dynamic, continuous process from the beginning to the end of all time - of which humans are just a temporary, local expression; but in being so they are still, like everything else, from the galaxy to to the atom, created in the likeness of Creation - or of the Creator, if God is accepted to be greater than his human visualization.

The existence, the shape and the dynamics of the universe, including its conscious content, is based on rules which have been portrayed in various creation myths - especially in the biblical one - which, most likely, were shaped by observations; most notably those of creation through order, and of order through separation.

This arranging, separating and creating force is continuously (!) active as "gravity", in every second and for all eternity; if not, and wherever not, the structure of the universe would immediately dissolve and fly apart.

And while it makes no sense in this context to fix absolute time (or space) of its own, as what we regard as present is relative not only in terms of time, but also of space - we cannot even recognize the present when we look into the night sky - everything that is has been brought into being, in the approximately 13.5 billion years of its existence, from the interstellar primordial soup, via atoms, elements, then molecules and organic compounds, in ever increasing levels of complexity and order, exclusively (!) by gravity, the mutual attraction of dead matter, and it is being held together at any time by this force: "Gravity is God".

For gravity, by holding it all together, not only separates something from nothing and thus darkness from light, it also constantly creates new materials and compounds, down to living tissue, keeping that alive through constant renewal via new, preserved, and strengthened sources and sinks.

In doing so, gravity creates the original wealth we all feed and depend upon - which in turn touches on our imagination of economy.

In that context, gravity, as the long sought for physical Source of Life, the eternally self-renewing (and self-annihilating) Fountain of Youth, is not to be found in humans, nor in a specific location outside of them, but in every dimension in and around them; we find ourselves immersed in it like amoeba in the ocean; it permeates us, and we contribute to it, as do ants, with the mass of our bodies, as a part of the whole.

That, most probably, is why it is so difficult to recognize as a source.

Man on Earth, like the ant and anything else, is therewhile neither goal nor coincidence of the gravitational process, which includes meteorite impacts; but instead, an inevitable, though not the sole consequence of order and creation continuously taking place everywhere in the universe, due to (uninterrupted) gravitation over time:

Its resulting steadily and exponentially increasing material complexity over time almost inevitably creates, in comforting consequence, first life, then conscious life, in all those locations where ever this is at all possible - which of course then remain isolated from one another by insurmountable distances.

In fact, Creation may already have surpassed the local, momentary expression of itself, somewhere else in space, and possibly a long time ago; but then, perhaps not too much, for, though influencing it, gravity works over time.

And man, along with his co- inhabitants, as a local and recent expression of this Creation, holds no "task" over it - how should he?


However, humans should know about the forces and rules to which they owe their existence, and their dependence on time, to serve them as orientation.


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