This is the second booklet in the Conceptual God series. It is assumed that the reader has read The Truth of the Conceptual God. This installment assumes the truth of Divine Conceptualism, which was demonstrated in the first installment. This installment examines the work of the Conceptual God in creation of space-time and action in space-time history.
The modern theory of evolution was formed within a Platonist, materialistic framework.
The modern theory of evolution was formed within a Platonistic and Materialistic framework. Physical reality is viewed as under random changes to matter and energy within the framework of physical and chemical laws. These naturalistic theories would beg the question of how laws – a conceptual construct, could be defined in a reality where everything is determined by its physical; nature. These naturalistic theories also beg the question of how mathematical formalisms could have such explanatory power. These are called formalisms because they are true solely due to the structural form of the symbolism used to construct the equations and functions. These formalisms are true regardless of the physics of the universe. Formalisms are true even if physics do not exist.
The nature of formalisms is such, however, that formal truths constrain what is possible in the physics of a universe. The ability to use formal constructs and methods to explain physical phenomena is downright bizarre in a Materialist reality. In a Conceptualist/ Structural Realist reality, this is to be expected. The truth of Conceptualism in general and Divine Conceptualism in particular puts theories of Creation and Evolution in a new light.
The incoherence of atheistic evolution should be obvious given Divine Conceptualism. The universe cannot be both an ontologically distinct product of a Divine Mind and emerge wholly independent of the Divine Mind. The truth of Divine Conceptualism rules out atheism. The truth of Divine Conceptualism is not merely that there is evidence for God’s existence, but as I showed previously – nothing makes any sense in any context other than the framework of the existence of the Conceptual God.
The incoherence of Theistic Evolution is not evident on its face, but is revealed by analysis of the conceptual nature of evolution. One concept that is essential to evolution is that of the survival of the fittest. Evolutionary theory begs the question of exactly what constitutes ‘fittest:’
Is it the fittest individual? Fittest species? Perhaps only in a specific situational context. A superior individual or species can be overcome by numbers or have his fitness neutralized by a change of environment. According to the standard evolutionary account, sixty-six million years ago the dinosaurs ruled the earth only to be shortly extinct due to climatic changes caused by the asteroid impact in the Yucatan Peninsula. Fittest DNA? DNA constantly changes and mutates depending on the situation. In the sciences this is often called epigenetics. All of this is contextual and situation dependent.
The only thing that seems to be universal about evolution is the continuation of bio-chemical reactions of life, but this can coherently applied only in general terms and not to any particular instantiation; particular instantiations of life live by killing other instantiations or otherwise depriving them of life. Even the most general level of the continuity only exists if life is in a system that is fine-tuned for it. If the fine tuning goes “out of tune,” then all life becomes extinct. Everything in evolution is situational and contextual.
If everything in evolution is situational and contextual; then situational ethics rule. There can be no universal or transcendent values. There is no basis under evolution to condemn atrocities such as Nazism, zenophobia, rape, and genocide. There is only the question of what is appropriate in a given context. What is appropriate for one context might not be in another context.
Situational ethics is self-eating. It cuts down ethics even deeper than what its proponents would be willing. Situational ethics does not stop with individual cultures and people. It cuts all the way down to the molecular level. Evolution is driven by the successful attempt of organic molecules to sustain the chemical reactions of life. Nothing else matters. Individuals and societies do not matter unless they are supported by molecules who can sustain their reactions by using the individual and social constructs. Situational ethics not only destroys universal values, but also the relative categorical values of individuals and social groups. The only source of meaning in a fundamentally evolutionary world is the power of molecules to sustain chemical reactions.The naked truth is that chemical might makes right in all evolutionary ethical systems; all other labels serve only to mask this dark truth.
Evolution as a guiding principle is necessarily incoherent. It is incoherent on two levels. It is incoherent ontologically, epistemologically, and ethically..
If everything is relative and contextual, then there is nothing to serve as a context-creating reference-frame. This is why natural selection can work as a micro explanation but not a macro explanation. Natural selection depends on interacting with information in the surrounding context. If it depends on such context, it cannot account for that context. Other more fundamental principles are needed. The relativism of evolution is the same fallacy as denial of absolute truth. There there is no truth, then the statement “there is no truth” is false. If everything is relative, then there is no final reference-frame that is sufficient to serve as a foundation. This certainly could not possibly be the kind of thinking that would frame the thoughts of a universally transcendent Conceptual God. He is not relative to other reference-frames. It is inconceivable that a Conceptual God would create an information system where evolution is the fundamental guiding principle.
There is a second incoherency in embracing evolution as the fundamental principle. It is imply that the Conceptual God is a moral relativist and adherent to situational ethics. Why would a universally transcendent Conceptual God embrace situational ethics? Why would a universally transcendent Conceptual God embrace an ethical principle that asserts that chemical might makes right? Why would a universally transcendent Conceptual God embrace a system that affirms a materialist ethics as the fundamental principle in a conceptual reality? Evolution is not coherent as a fundamental principle and was not a part of the original creation. Evolution only entered in after the fall of man corrupted space-time and caused it to reboot, quantum erasing much of the original creation.
Why did the Conceptual God create?
Creation is of necessity filled with telios. That comes from a Greek world for purpose or design. There are three basic considerations in any designed system: The fine tuning of its components, the overall purpose designed for the system, and the pleasure the design brings to – or on behalf of – its Creator:
Any creation is necessarily designed and designed in a way that is fine-tuned to accomplish a set of purposes. This is true if the designed system is a machine, computer software, or the multiverse. Designed systems have a nesting of purposes at many levels. Each component has a specialized purpose that is meaningful only within the context of the information system being designed. A given functionality may help an organism breath, eat, or interact with the quantum wave-function. Each low level purpose helps a component fulfill its purpose in the context that contains the component. Each object God created He created with properties and methods that pertain to its purpose. Objects are nested in object in multiple layers all the way up to the space-time that is instantiated.
The primary focus of any discussion of design and purpose must ultimately propagate toward meta-narrative purposes. While it is needful to know information concerning the processes involved in eating, sex, breathing, and parsing the wave-function; these are not ultimate or meta-narrative purposes. Complex creations have a higher purpose. While automobiles have systems that brake, accelerate, and shine light, these are not the ultimate purposes of an automobile. While automobiles must be able to brake and accelerate, the ultimate purpose of an automobile is to transport its occupants and cargo from point A to point B.
How can we determine the ultimate purpose(s) of a creation. We can make inferences from its basic functionality in the context of its fine-tuning. Automobiles are fine-tuned to transport people and cargo. To that end there are a variety of methods and properties built into various components, each of which does something that enables the automobile to move itself and its cargo to the selected destination. By analyzing the set of functionalities of its component and how these work together can help us understand the larger purpose of the automobile. Those purposes which best explain the sum of the properties and methods that pertain to the automobile are the ultimate purpose(s) for which automobiles are created.
Man created for love relationship and completeness in God.
What is the ultimate purpose for humanity? Many people think of acquiring physical resources, acquiring power, or experiencing the pleasures and vanities of this world as their purpose. While humans need money, social standing, and sex to continue to live and maintain civilizations, these are not the ultimate reasons that God created humanity.
To help us understand why humanity was created, we need to understand the functionalities of what it means to be human. Humanity has properties and methods not seen in the rest of creation. Humanity actually has a consciousness of the formalisms God uses to construct the methods and properties of creation.
One feature of humanity understanding the formalisms God uses in creation is that man has categories to understand abstract, conceptual realities. Man can peer past the perception of how things seem to get to the conceptual root of things. Specifically, man can conceive of categories that enable him to pursue a relationship with the divine. The creation of such categories implies that God intended for humanity to relate to Him.
Man is also like God in that he can create creations to serve his pleasure as God created to serve His Pleasure. This gives us new understanding concerning the higher purpose of man. Most of the animals can neither conceive its own purpose nor have its own pleasure. They fulfill God’s pleasure while being agnostic to their own place in the cosmos. Humanity is different. Humans are capable of having ideas about their place in the world and ideas about what brings them pleasure. With man God created a being who pursues both his own pleasure AND God’s pleasure. The pursuit of both human and divine pleasure requires a symbiotic relationship between man and God. Man pursue the glory of God because He wants to, not because he must by virtue of his programming. Another way of saying this is to say God created humanity for ac love relationship. As Jesus said, “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him (John 14:23).”
If God created humanity for a love relationship, what happened? What has gone wrong? Why is there so much confusion, corruption, and chaos in this world? Under any evolutionary theory such affairs are to be expected. Futility, Suffering and death are the engine of evolution, and most ancient pagan narratives have this dark thread running through them. In the Lion King, Simba has a vision of Mufasa in the night sky after Mufasa’s death. Mufasa tells him that his death should not be seen as a dark event or tragic but simply as normal part of the circle of life. As Mufasa explains, the grass is eaten but the antelope, who in turn is eaten by the lion, who in turn dies to decompose into dirt that feeds the grass.
Scripture, however, does not present such a dark account or normalize darkness as a normal part of life. Rather, darkness and death are presented as a tragic outcome of sin. In Romans 5:12-19, Paul instructs us that death came by sin. In this passage death is used as a falsifiable ( empirically testable) criterion. Paul uses death as evidence that everyone from Adam to Moses was a sinner, including those who did not sin by breaking any of God’s commandments. Death would only work as proof of sin if it is physical death. If death were already a normal part of the created order or if this death were only spiritual death, then it would be impossible for Paul to use death as a proof. Paul cited the fact that there was nobody from Abraham’s time who was alive in his time as proof that each and every one of them was a sinner. Death and destruction are presented in Scripture as tragedies to be remedied. (More on the remedy later in this volume).
Out of all of the Creation narratives, Young Earth Creation(YEC) is the only one that has a coherent account of how evil entered the world that is compatible with both Scripture and its account of creation. It is not that other perspectives held by Christians do not have answers; however, these answers are an ad-hoc patchwork of explanations that do not really cohere very well. Such non-YEC accounts interpret texts differently to eliminate discrepancies with evolutionary theory, but in doing so embrace evolutionary morality or result in cognitive dissonance between the implications of their creation narratives and the ethical system they have embraced.
While YEC has a strength in the coherence of its narrative with Judeo-Christian ethics, it is weakened in that its shares the same Platonist approach to creation as the other major viewpoints on origins. This Platonistic approach is a physicalist way of viewing natural processes. This Platonistic approach goes all the way back to Plato, who saw divine creation as an artisan who worked pre-existing matter into its forms and functions. YEC differs from atheistic evolution only in the nature of the artisan and how he shapes material reality. Naturalistic religionists see matter as its own (and sometimes blind) artisan. Christians who take a Platonistic approach will usually grant a concession to orthodoxy by affirming that matter is created ex nihilo. Once material reality is instantiated, they proceed with the same Platonist mindset asd unbelievers. The common thread of all varieties of Platonism is that material reality is affirmed as fundamental. This is true not only of all forms of Materialism but of its superset Substance Realism.
A Conceptualist reading of Genesis 1,2
In in the last section, I demonstrated that physicalist interpretations of the physical universe pose difficulties in science and philosophy due to their incoherence. Physicalist interpretations also pose difficulties when they frame the interpretation of Scripture. The Genesis accounts of creation are typically framed in physicalist terms. If reality is fundamentally conceptual rather than physical, then a conceptualist reading of sacred Scripture makes much more sense.The Genesis accounts, when interpreted from a physicalist perspective, have both internal and external difficulties. These difficulties go away when interpreted conceptually. In particular we see several discrepancies between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 as seen from a physicalist perspective. In Genesis 1 man is created last on the sixth day, but in Genesis 2 man is created before any trees or plants emerge from the soil. Genesis 1 says that God took six days whereas Genesis 2 suggests that it all occurred on the same day. How can man be last and first in the same story?
These difficulties only exist in a physicalist interpretation of Genesis. In a Conceptualist interpretation these difficulties simply do not exist. If reality is defined Conceptually by a Conceptual God as I demonstrated in the last volume, and if physical reality is fundamentally an information system, and if physicality emerges as a result of wave-function collapse as I demonstrated in the last volume; then a Conceptual reading of the inspired Creation accounts is in order.
If we live in a Conceptual universe and Genesis is a divinely inspired document that imparts substantial information about creation, then we should expect it to be interpretable as an object oriented program(OOP). OOP programming has two components: class definitions and instantiation of objects with the properties and methods defined in the class.
In OOP programming the class definition precedes instantiation or implementation. When a parser or reader of program code reads the class definitions, nothing is actually happening. When this code is read, a description of the properties and methods (or actions) is loaded into memory and assigned to a label. This code will only be executed when an object invokes the class by calling it out by name. Once that happens the loaded description become a prescription that constrains how that object must behave. Genesis 1 is class definitions. Nothing is becoming actualized at the point that God is speaking forth His Creation. He is writing code that describes what will happen when the Creation is instantiated. Genesis 1 is almost exclusively God talking. God is busy constructing code. Genesis 1 described the portion of the wave-function from which the physical universe would emerge
In Genesis 2 there is no clue of God speaking forth. He is presented exclusively as acting rather than speaking. Here humanity is the first creation rather than the last. Why is that? In the last volume I demonstrated that physical reality became manifest when a measurement of the wave-function caused it to collapse. Adam needed to be the first instantiated creation for the same reason a Web site needs Web browsers. The Creation becomes actualized only when instantiated. Because God’s plan was for humanity to rule over the planet, He had a special role for Adam. Adam would be used to instantiate the physical universe. When God breathed into Adam the breath of life and Adam opened his eyes for the first time, Adam conducted a measurement of the wave-function for the first time. While God knew what was in the wave-function, He did not conduct a classical measurement prior to Adam. The wave-function contained information that would describe a young creation that was six days old, but this information did not materialize until Adam conducted a classical measurement upon first waking up. When Adam conducted the first classical measurement, a back story of creation booted up and ran exactly as God instructed it to do in accordance with Genesis 1.
It was necessary for man to be the first to be created and placed into the Garden of Eden because his classical measurement started the execution of the code God wrote that was described in Genesis 1. It was necessary for man to be awake to instantiate the back-story of creation as a pre-loaded history. The previous history of the universe was then back loaded in a manner similar to the quantum erasure experiment1.
Second Law of Thermodynamics as the Law of Sin and Death.
In the beginning God instituted the law of sin and death. This law simply says that death is the result of sin and does not exist except as a consequence of sin. There are various iterations of this in Scripture and confirmed by science. In Genesis 2:16-17 we are instructed that “the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” This set up the law of sin and death. There are two major implications of the law of sin and death: The universe was created without any sin or death at the beginning, and the law of sin and death existed prior to sin and death.
The universe was created without any sin or death at the beginning. God created the universe that, as an information system, is coherent and dependent on Him as its reference-frame. This coherence manifests itself physically as an infinitely open system. Life is epigenetically1 in sync with itself, its environment, and in relationship to the Creator. Epigenetics refers to the capacity of living things to, by functions of its DNA and DNA derivatives(i.e. RNA), to gain information about and interact with the surrounding environment. Epigenetics was used in the original, good creation to communicate with the surrounding environment and with the Creator.
Synchronization of the creation with a timeless, transcendent Creator would make evolution neither possible nor desirable. The universe would find its pleasure by serving at the pleasure of the Creator.
The law of sin and death existed prior to sin and death. This was necessary to conceptually force a paradigm change and allow coherently functioning of the program in the event sin entered the system. The law of sin and death was God’s version oftry…catch. Creation was originally designed to function without any sin or death. Creation was built in dependence and in sync with the Creator. Sin introduces contradictions that destroy that synchronization. This destruction of synchronization destroys the connection with God that sustains the creation. The entrance of sin was essentially the “Blue Screen of Death” of the original creation. The entrance of sin would necessitate a paradigm change into a system that could accommodate sin, death, and increasing degrees of separation from God. It would be necessary. The Law of sin and death prescribes a reboot of the system in the event of sin.
The law of sin and death has an analogue in science. The Second Law of Thermodynamics2 says that, in any closed system, some energy dissipates into unusable form. This increase in unusable energy is called entropy. All concrete physical and discrete digital systems are necessarily finite. As more energy becomes unusable, the universe runs out of usable energy. As usable energy runs out, life processes, and eventually, the ability to do work ceases.
The law of sin and death was introduced because God created beings who could pursue their own pleasure. The freedom to pursue their own pleasure implies the possibility of pursuit of it in ways that are contrary to God’s pleasure. The law of sin and death and its analogue, the second law of thermodynamics, exist prior to the introduction of sin and death. While energy dissipated into forms unusable to the system prior to sin, the harmony between the universe and god was such that God sustained the universe. The amount of energy available to the universe was stable. There was no entropy increase, no death, no disorder. It was only when sin entered in and cut the natural world off from God that thermodynamic processes resulted in increased entropy, death, and disorder.
Where can sin corrupt the Creation? What part of the universe is vulnerable. In the first section of this work, I wrote that the Conceptual God created the wave-function by speaking forth an ontologically distinct rhema word. It should be evident that the Conceptual God cannot be corrupted by sin. The wave-function is also incorruptible. The wave-function contains information that describes every logically possible and feasible action and state that can exist. The ability to conceive of others sinning does not imply that they actually do sin. This information existed logically prior to creation. The information inside of the wave-function did not change because of sin.
The physical universe is instantiated when a consciousness conducts a measurement on the wave-function. The nature of the measurement determine how the wave-function is parsed. The parser can be corrupted by sin. As conscious parses the wave-function and construct physical reality according to the rules that constrain what is possible, anything that affects this parser on a fundamental level can have an effect the nature of the universe that is constructed. As all such construction involve loading a backstory of events prior to the placement of that consciousness on the logical timeline, such corruption does not merely occur at a place within time, but affects all of space-time
Sin brought death to the whole space-time.
Because the consciousness constructs physical reality by parsing the wave-function and such parsing includes parsing a back story of events that happened prior to the entrance of the parser into the spacetime, anything that affects the nature of the parser can affect space-time. Human consciousness parses physical reality as a networked simulation analogous to an online video game. Because physical reality is a parsed information system, introduction of incoherencies such as sin or rebellion against God can cause the simulation to crash.
The law of sin and death was embedded as a fundamental part of the original simulation that was free of death. This allowed the information system to respond to the entrance of sin should it ever happen. The law of sin and death function like the blue screen of death on modern computing systems. The entrance of sin forced a reboot of space-time and erasure of the original.
Genesis gives us instructions concerning the circumstances surrounding the entrance of sin into the world. These instruction are rather cryptic when interpreted from a substance realist/physicalist perspective, but when interpreted in light of quantum mechanics in a conceptual world they make perfect sense. Adam and Eve were told that they could eat from every tree in the Garden of Eden except for the “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” Much speculation is afoot concerning what fruit this tree bore or whether it is merely symbolism. It is apparent that Adam and Eve already knew about good and evil and engaged in ethical dialogue with Satan. While Satan is a liar and was lying to Eve in this discourse, the conversation does not make any sense unless Adam and Eve already understood ethical categories.
There is a second sense in which knowledge is used here. While knowledge can mean the acquisition of information, it can also mean intimate experience. The same word is used in Scripture in reference to Adam knowing Eve. In this context, it is referring to the carnal knowledge of sexual experience. Knowledge in this sense mean that the subject (knower) becomes entangled in the object of that knowledge.
Knowledge as entanglement is a quantum mechanical concept3. Central to quantum mechanics is the concept that when an unentangled observer conducts a measurement on a system, that the wave-functions collapses and physical reality materializes as particle based objects. The act of measurement causes the observer to become entangled in a quantum system.
Another quantum mechanical concept that is at play here is the concept of superpositions4. Super positions are descriptions of potentialities defined by the wave-function generally and the Shrödinger equation in particular. These represent alternate possibilities that do not become actualized until an observer conducts a measurement. Contradictory possibilities can exist side by side in the wave-function as they only potentialities before measurement; the Law of Noncontradiction does not prevent contradictory possibilities from existing side by side. Shrödinger introduced a thought experiment to illustrate this using cats. Let’s imagine there is a cat in the box with some radioactive material and a geiger counter. Is the cat dead or alive? Prior to measurement, the cat is in a set of superposition states in the wave-function. The cat is potentially both dead and alive prior to measurement. The Law of Noncontradiction, however, constrains measurement. Once a measurement is conducted, the cat is either dead or alive.
We see superpositions play in the Garden when God introduced the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” How can anything be both good and evil in the same context. Good and Evil exist conceptually as superpositions that only become actualized when a measurement is conducted. In this case the type of measurement controls which is actualized. This fruit can be measured by seeing, touching, or eating. God’s command NOT to eat insures that measuring the fruit by eating will result in evil becoming actualized. The actualization of evil requires a decision concerning measurement that disobeyed God. When Adam ate the forbidden fruit, he brought evil into the system. This evil caused the space-time to “blue screen” and reboot as a system that now suffered growing degrees of separation from God
The rebooted universe, upon separation from God, now experiences Death
Due to sin causing a “blue screen,” the simulation that powers the universe reboots as a system that has been disconnected from God. Due to this disconnection, energy that dissipates into unusable forms is not replaced. There are two consequences to this: there is now an absolute scarcity of total resources, and there is also competition among organisms for increasingly scarce resources. These two forces brought death to all of creation
There is now an absolute scarcity of total resources. This scarcity began the process of death. As more energy is lost, less energy is left to maintain the system and entropy or disorder increases. This results in death to living organisms, wear and tear on inanimate objects, and eventual death to the whole universe. When the universe was connected to God, energy lost to the physical universe was simply returned to the wave-function, which is the ontologically distinct Rhema Word of God which continually sustained creation. Now that sin has entered, this process has been disrupted. The universe is now dying.
This absolute scarcity also creates competition among organisms for increasingly scarce resources. DNA was created to function epigenetically, which simply means that DNA interacts with the outside environment. DNA uses this information to determine which genes are expressed in what context. Prior to sin, the universe was operating optimally without any pressure on any system to change. After sin, when the universe rebooted separated from God, the universe no longer operated optimally. The dwindling supply of resources put pressure on organisms to compete for existing resources. The epigenetic process of information exchange is no longer in communication with the Creator, but simply had to perform the best it can. This created opportunities for code to be repurposed in ways outside of the original, optimal design but are now more optimal in the new environment. The epigenetic information exchange process also became self-centered as each organism – each molecule – became engaged in a fight for self-preservation. Self-centered ethics driven by the fight for self-preservation in survival of the fittest, ethics driven by a biochemical might makes right, defined morality in this brave new world forged by Adam’s sin. This fight became the driving force behind evolution, evolution driven from the Big Bang to the heat death of the universe.
As the reboot affected all of space-time, it had consequences on the development of cosmology There are three classes of modern quasi-scientific cosmologies, Big Bang cosmologies5, eternal linear steady state6, and eternal oscillating models7. Eternal steady-state cosmologies require the continual creation ex nihilo of new matter and energy to replace energy that decays into unusable forms. This violates the First Law of Thermodynamics8 (The law of Conservation of Energy). Eternal oscillating models result in entropy buildup. The Second law of Thermodynamics insures that these oscillations would run out of usable energy long before the present day. From a physicalist viewpoint, the First Law of Thermodynamics is necessary because otherwise you would have violation of causality with something being drawn out of null. Under the Law of Noncontradiction it is impossible for anything to be drawn from its contradictory. Something cannot come from null, or properties from non-properties. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is also necessary to preserve causality. Causality requires a well-defined arrow of time to preserve the relation between cause and effect. The fact that action are Thermodynamically irreversible is why we do not see eggs un-cracking or bottles un-breaking in the real world. Broken things are in a lower energy state than before they broke, and fixing them requires more energy than was consumed in breaking them. This excess energy goes away in entropy.
From a conceptual, information system perspective, the First Law of Thermodynamics is necessary because no simulation can consume more resources that is allocated for it. This allocation must be defined at the beginning. This is why there is a maximum speed that objects travel through space, and this is why dark energy grows as Thermodynamically usable energy decreases, and this is why maxing out one parameter of time, energy, or space relativistically affect others in specified ways.
From a conceptual, information system perspective, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is necessary because all information systems that run as executable programs require that code execution be timed according to a CPU clock. If that timing can be meddled with or reversed then there is no coherent reference to determine program state. If one can mess with the CPU clock then the program crashes asd it cannot have an accurate time.
The Laws of Thermodynamics are the most fundamental physical laws that exist. These do not happen to exist in our physical universe; they must exist in some form in any instantiatable physical information system. Linear and oscillating eternal models are simply off the table. Both these models are also mathematically incoherent as they require instantiatable, countable infinities, which are impossible. As I documented thoroughly in section one of this document and in Chapter 9 ofThe Logic of God, It is impossible to define an infinity by counting or summing9, as no matter how many are counted, there are others yet to be counted. Infinities transcend any attempt to count them.
This leaves some variant of the Big Bang as the only class of coherent models. The Big Bang model asserts that, out of a singularity (undefinable in terms of classical physics, the universe began expanding in all directions. This resulted in an exponential increase in the size of the universe and an even distribution (on global scales) of the energy of the universe.
The Big Bang, however, is not without flaws. Such flaws in inevitable due to the fact that sin has introduced incoherencies into the system. There are three problems associated with the Big Bang Model: The horizon problem, the flatness problem, and the monopole problem.
The horizon problem10 is caused by the fact that the universe has expanded at a rate that would not allow light (think heat) to travel to all points of the universe to even out background energy during the time that the universe has existed. The different parts of the universe have become causally disconnected from each other by reason of being too far apart to affect each other by forces that can only move at light speed.
This is only problems in a physicalist interpretation of the Big Bang. If the Big Bang is a backstory in a virtual simulation it is not a problem as the causally disconnected parts of the universe are on parts of the virtual canvas that are always in the background, making the incoherence irrelevant.
The flatness problem11 is caused by the fact that the energy density of the universe must be extremely fine-tuned throughout the history of the universe to yield its present measured values. If the energy density is greater than it the critical value, then gravity dominates the universe. Energy is analogous to matter, and the more matter contributes to gravity. The universe quickly crunches. If the energy density is less than the critical value, then dark energy dominates the universe. As Thermodynamic decay results in the growth of dark energy, that energy would cause expansion to produce a big rip which would have destroyed the universe o a scale of thousands of years as there would not be enough gravity to check the expansion. It works out that have just the right balance to allow for a flat universe that expands at a rate slow enough that the universe does not rip apart at the subatomic level, and this requires that energy density in the early universe be fine-tuned on the order to 10^60. This is also not a problem in a virtual universe as these are necessarily fine-tuned systems.
The monopole problem12 is produced by the fact that the conditions of the early universe should have resulted in a universe dominated by magnetic monopoles. The fact is that we have never observed even one magnetic monopole in nature. Maxwell equations on electromagnetism tell us that electromagnetic fields in classical physics require two poles. In monopole magnetic fields, one set of lines of magnetic force goes out to infinity, resulting in them never returning to the other pole. In 2014 magnetic monopoles were synthetically produced in a lab for the first time13. There are properties of a group of exotic properties called polaritons. Polaritons have properties of both particles and waves. These objects lie at the boundary between particle physics and the wave-function. Half of the particle is instantiated into classical physics while the other half lie hidden in the wave functions. These magnetic fields are generated by running energy through unobservable and physically undefinable Dirac Strings14, which act like solenoids.
The monopole problem is by far the most interesting problem with the Big Bang Model. A magnetic monopole dominated universe following a Big Bang would be less than 30,000 years old. There would be “more magnetic monopoles than nucleons.15”
A magnetic monopole is a hybrid particle-wave. One pole behaves like a conventional magnetic pole as it is on the particle half of the hybrid. The other half is a wave that does not collapse into a particle. The lines of force on the wave side do not turn back on themselves like they do in a particle but extend into infinity.
These hybrid magnetic fields would obey Maxwell’s laws16 in several ways that are similar to conventional magnetic fields. The charges on both sides would be equal but reversed. An interesting note here is that quantum entanglement also works on an equal/reversal effect much like mirroring a hologram. Charge in both context would mean energy pressure at a given location rather than total energy. The earth, for example has a very weak magnetic field. At ½ gauss, it is much weaker than a typical refrigerator magnet. The total magnetic energy of the earth would be much greater than the refrigerator magnet, but it is distributed over a much larger area.
The necessity that both “poles” have an equal charge has unique implications on a magnetic monopoles. In the ill-defined “pole” on the wave side the magnetic energy would extend to infinity. This is called a Dirac string and is the only way to reconcile Maxwell’s equation describing electromagnetism (classical physics) with monopoles. The Dirac string (or lines of force on the wave-function side) extend to infinity and have a finite charge at the monopole. As charge refers to energy density, the total energy along the entire string is infinite (finite charge/energy density over an infinite distance. The charge at the monopole is also invariant as its ratio to the total never changes.
Magnetic monopoles could provide a mechanism by which the totalavailableenergy levels of the universe would have remained level. If
1. The energy fields of magnetic monopoles necessarily has equal but opposite charges between the unobservable Dirac string and the observable monopole; and
2. The total energy of a Dirac string is infinite; and
3. The charge of a Dirac string where it meets the monopole never changes as a ratio of the total energy of the Dirac string; then
The charge available to the observable never decreases no matter how much energy is leaked from the monopole into the physical universe in thermodynamic activity that results in energy becoming unavailable. The entanglement between the Dirac string and the observable monopole results in a continuous influx of energy into the universe equal to the amount that is lost due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy never increases. Such a universe will never suffer heat death and will never suffer anything that triggers evolutionary pressures as long as the ratio of magnetic monopoles remains constant and abundant.
This monopole dominated universe would be young and much smaller than our current universe. These monopoles would more strongly link the instantiated universe to the wave-function from which it is drawn. The infinite lines of force that run deep into the wave-function would, via Maxwell’s equations, be balanced with the classically defined monopole. Any electromagnetic energy that dissipates into thermodynamically unusable forms would be replaced by connection of these monopoles with the wave-function. These magnetic fields would also be efficient conductors of information. The physical universe would be a in sync with the wave-function in a way that it has not since sin tainted the parsing of the wave-function. This energy-rich, information richness would diminish the other two problems
Because the penalty for sin is death – because God will not coexist with sin and because his wrath against evil would destroy those who parse a sin-tainted physical system into existence- He put a separation between the world of sin and himself. Because magnetic monopoles were key to a robust connection between classical physics that governs our world and the wave-function defined by the ontological distinct rhema word of God, consigning the universe to die would involve getting rid of these magnetic monopoles. God used cosmic inflation to dilute these monopoles17. Inflation would also lock in values needed to maintain the flatness and horizons information of the early universe. Cosmic inflation would also dilate time, locking in evolutionary epochs18. This change would require a quantum erasure event to erase the good young creation and replace it with a corrupted evolutionary creation – a reboot of the the universe.19
The resulting rebooted universe was an evolutionary creation ruled by death. Evolution is death, as it first works death to all species, and other taxonomies which fall to more fit categories of life and finally brings death to the very principle of life as the Second Law of Thermodynamics brings about the heat death of the universe.
Evolutionary constraints on the universe
Man was in the image of God when this reboot occurred, so he retained the image of God as he was entangled at the point of the Fall. The consciousness of man did not lose its essential properties. There was, however, a loss of the connection previously held with God. Instead of being only distinct, man was now in hostility with God. His consciousness is now framed in self-centeredness rather than conceptually centered in the Creator or thought centered. This reference frame switch effected how reality is parsed.
The predominance of evolutionary paradigm in this rebooted universe constrains what is produced. If evolution is scientifically or mathematically model-able, then it had limited teleology. That is, evolution leads to a specific sub-set of outcomes and favors probability distributions that favor that sub-set over alternative outcomes.
Principles such as survival of the Fittest and the ever pervasive scarcity condition several biases into organisms. Organisms are bred to be self-centered as evolution selects for decisions and programmed behaviors that favor self-preservation and survival. Evolution favors self-centeredness. Specifically, evolution favors decisions and programmed behaviors that motivate competition for scarce resources. Those who win survive and those who lose die. Cooperative behaviors are also fundamentally self-centered. Self is preserved by preserving the ingroup to which the self belongs. An animal may sacrifice its own life to save progeny, it’s herd, or it’s colony or give it a competitive advantage over other groups.
The instincts that drive organisms to cooperate with their ingroup developed through epigenetic interaction between the organism’s genes and the immediate environment. Cooperative efforts among animals are commonly see as preserving the species or genome, but epigenetic information does not have that range. An organism’s DNA could only gather information about its immediate environment. In yes of whether genetically programmed instincts push towards cooperation or competition, no distinction is made between members of the same species but different ingroup and members of different species. Organisms compete against everyone outside their in-group. This limitation on the range of epigenetic information also results in conditioning brains to take a physicalist view of the world, obscuring the knowledge of the Conceptual God.
The decisions made in this fight for survival are fundamentally self-centered, Utilitarian, and geared towards survival at all costs without regard to any objective morality. Morality is either non-existent or exists as no more than a tool in the fight for survival.
Objective morality and altruistic behavior puts organisms at an evolutionary disadvantage. Organisms displaying such traits would be at greater risk of dying prematurely or otherwise failing to reproduce robust offspring. Their genes would not propagate as well as those who displayed more selfish. Evolution would select for selfishness, tribalistic, and utilitarian morality and organic life would essentially be bred to be increasingly selfish.
This selfish, tribalistic, and utilitarian instinct would become hard-wired into the DNA of organism descended from those who survived previous ages of evolution. The evolution and hard-wiring would affect the human brain as well as the body of humanity would have descended from ape-like ancestors. In this rebooted universe, the flesh of Adam is descended from “apes” rather than created from the dust. The human brain would be hard-wired with instincts of selfishness, tribalism, and utilitarian morality developed by millions of years of biological evolution. In other words, quasi-Nazi tribal ethics would be rather typical of the human species under evolution.
A quick glance of humanity quickly shows a potential defeater for evolution. We see evidence that compassion, sacrificial love, and altruistic morality exist in the world, contrary to the logical implications of evolution. Richard Dawkins, in his documentaryThe Fifth Ape, grapples with his question. Dawkins develops the hypothesis that there were instances of cooperation that actually conferred an evolutionary advantage. From those he inferred that this is the basis for altruistic morality. There are three problems with Dawkins thesis. One is most of the evidence he cites actually support the emergence of tribalism, which actually leads to much violence, utilitarian morality, Nazi-esque atrocities, and genocide as the norm. The second is that truly altruistic behavior suffers an evolutionary disadvantage. Organisms that consistently act contrary to the interest of themselves or their ingroup will become weaker relative to their selfish, utilitarian competitors and die out. The third problem is an absolute defeater for Evolutionary naturalism. If the material, natural world is the ultimate reality, and evolution is the mechanism governing how material reality is shaped, then it must explain and causally account for what is produced in the world. If Naturalism is true, then there is no causal ground for the emergence of altruistic morality and it therefore never comes into existence. The existence of altruistic morality defeats Naturalism.
What about evolution? Evolution as a fundamental reality is falsified by the existence of altruistic morality and its derivative concepts and narratives. Evolution as a mechanism that is only contingently true relative to a fundamentally created reality could exist side by side with altruistic morality. However, it cannot account for this morality. Altruistic morality in an evolved world can only exist if counter-evolutionary actors are present. The presence of both evidence for evolution and altruistic morality and its derivatives provides a fingerprint and voiceprint for the activity of the Conceptual God in space-time history.
The Christian story is unsustainable in an evolutionary world without God
Altruistic morality entails three components unlikely in an evolutionary universe: A conceptual understanding of metaphysics, non-relative ethics, and unconditional love.
A conceptual understanding of metaphysics is unlikely in an evolutionary universe because epigenetic evolution is focused only on interaction with the immediate physical environment. A physicalist and physically dependent viewpoint would be reinforced by over a billion years of evolution. This evolutionary programming would form heavy constraints against a conceptualist view of the world.
Non-relative ethics is unlikely in an evolutionary universe because evolution breeds self-centeredness. This self-centeredness works to relativize any ethical system that may emerge. In species that are social, this self-centeredness would be interpreted in terms of the immediate tribe of which the individual organism is a member. Any ethical system that emerges in those species would be relative to the perceived interests of the tribe. This, along with lack of a conceptualist view of the world, works against any ethical system that pursued an objective good that did not discriminate in favor of the ingroup.
Unconditional love is unlikely in an evolutionary universe because over one billion years of evolution breeds self-centeredness and tribalism. In particular, loving your enemies runs diametrically opposed to evolution.
It is apparent, that while humanity displays many behaviors predicted by evolution, humans also display many behaviors that are contradiction to evolution. If evolutionary naturalism is true, these behaviors would not be possible. It would not be possible because in such a world, man would only have the tools and attributes provided by nature and evolution. There is no ground for a conceptualist view of the world, objective morality, or unconditional love. The fact that such DO exist in this world is a powerful defeater of evolutionary naturalism.
What about evolution in a non-naturalistic environment? Evolution in any world created by the Conceptual God is never a fundamental reality; but only a secondary reality triggered by sin. Adam’s sin tainted how he parsed the wave-function. Since the physical universe emerges as a result of an analogue of an online gaming simulation, anything that affects the parsing of the wave-function will affect the resulting space-time. Anything that can substantially affect the parsing of the wave-function can result in quantum erasure of the existing universe and replacement by a universe that is compatible with both the parser and the wave-function. As what the Bible describes as a Holy God cannot coexist with sin, such a universe experiences a disconnection from God that God did not intend. Once such a disconnect occurs, energy that dissipates via the Second Law of Thermodynamics is not replaced, and the universe begins to run out of energy – it begins to die. Evolution is the logical result of a dying universe that was also created to be an interactive information system. The intelligence built into such a system results in living organisms to seek optimal ways to survive in a world hostile to life. Evolution was never God’s original intent, but a fallback that only occurs when sin interacts with the wave-function.
Because Adam was in the image of God when he became sinfully entangled with the wave-function, he still retains the image of God. This means that humanity can conceive concepts that could never be grounded in evolution like conceptualist views, objective morality, and unconditional love. The flesh of man, however, did not retain its former glory. Human flesh, like all other physical reality, emerged from parsing the wave-function and was tainted by the fall. Humanity, in the flesh, now had apes as evolutionary cousins. The human brain is now a product of evolution that differs qualitatively from other brains only by virtue of the image of God that is embedded in human consciousness. As the brain is the gateway to human interaction with the wave-function, the evolutionary patterns present in the brain form powerful constraints deterring humanity from expressing the implications of the image of God. This means that a narrative based on a divine conceptualist view of the reality, objective morality, and unconditional love is simply not sustainable based on that image of God using the power of the flesh. Evolutionary pressures would quickly extinguish such impulses. The result was that humanity would drift far from what God intended when he created humanity in his image.
The existence of conceptualist viewpoint, objective morality, and unconditional love, then, are a voiceprint of God’s activity in this corrupt world of death. Voiceprints are a prototype of using unique identifiers to determine the actions of specific actors in space-time history. This technique is used across disciplines such as textual criticism, archeology, and literary analysis to look for unique patterns that link historical activity to specific actors. In information technology, this technique is used in various authentication systems to determine that a user is whom they claim to be.
Because of the impossibly of a narrative consisting of conceptualism, objective morality, and unconditional love without the Conceptual God and the improbability of a sustaining this narrative in an evolutionary universe without God’s intervention, the existence of such a narrative will have the voiceprint of God. The Judeo-Christian narrative uniquely has these features.
When I say that the the Judeo-Christian narrative is only sustainable with the supernatural intervention of a Conceptual God, I mean that it would not even exist without God. The existence of the Christian story has God’s voiceprint to verify its authenticity. In the next section,The Life of the Conceptual God, I will show what this looks like in more detail.
References
1 Epigenetics is the study of how gene expression is regulated by interactions wit the outside environment.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/
2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/seclaw.html
3 Quantum entanglement
https://www.livescience.com/28550-how-quantum-entanglement-works-infographic.html
4 Superpositions
http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=124
5 Big Bang
https://www.space.com/25126-big-bang-theory.html
6 Eternal linear steady state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_State_theory
7 Eternal oscillating models
https://www.universetoday.com/38195/oscillating-universe-theory/
8 First Law of Thermodynamics requires that the amount of total energy in aclosed system be fixed. This prevents the universe from using more resources than have been allocated to it
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/firlaw.html
9 In chapter 9 of my book,The Logic of God, I show It is impossible to define an infinity by counting or summing. This, however, would not rule out conceptual infinities that do not require incremental instantiation.
10 The Horizon Problem, Dr Malcolm Fairburn, King’s College, London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTwCdJftYD0
11 The Flatness Problem requires extreme fine-tuning to launch and sustain a universe. This is a problem if physical reality emerges from an information system fine-tuned by a Cosmic Mind
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/F/Flatness+Problem
12 The Monopole Problem emerges because, according to various models of the Big Bang theory, the universe should be very dense with magnetic monopoles. They have yet to even observe even one in nature. It is believed that cosmic inflation dissipated these.
https://thebrilliantcosmos.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/the-magnetic-monopole-problem/
13 In 2014 magnetic monopoles were synthetically produced in a lab for the first time
14 Dirac Strings
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These hybrid magnetic fields would obey Maxwell’s laws16
God used cosmic inflation to dilute these monopoles17.
Cosmic inflation would also dilate time, locking in evolutionary epochs18. – 54
This change would require a quantum erasure event to erase the good young creation and replace it with a corrupted evolutionary creation – a reboot of the universe.19 – 54