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SUE Speaks's avatar

That it's an evolving universe where it started as nothing and everything has been evolving together, all interconnected. Before Hubble we thought it was a static universe, all fixed, with us on a dead planet here for our use. Our bodies are pretty much all developed now but our thinking dimension is still evolving, from being rugged individualists chasing personal gain to understanding we are one interconnected body here to be caretakers of the planet.

You get the idea that the whole universe is what you could call sacred -- what god is. It evolves itself -- an awesome enterprise.

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Elle Griffin's avatar

Hmmmmm, this is where you lose me. We know that we are in an evolving universe—it doesn’t make people act unselfishly. Even if we are aware that we need to take care of each other and our planet, we still act selfishly and there will still be selfish people. I don’t believe a scientific discovery will make humans suddenly selfless and working for the good of all. Maybe we just disagree about human nature?

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It's back to our creation story. We're not sinners. There is a zeitgeist for human beings in a culture, and the evolutionary story -- that we haven't yet based our creation story on -- changes us from being sinners needing salvation to being the very stuff of the universe, the glorious universe, the sacred universe, what God is. Humanity is due for a massive shift in our understanding of the universe that will radically affect its behavior. After Copernicus and Galileo, we went from kings and serfs to get to democracy. With you being looked up to, you owe it to humanity to get wised up about this. This is not my clever idea but a track of Teilhard de Chardin to Thomas Berry to my favorite contemporary storyteller, Brian Swimme. I'd suggest having a look at my Substacks about Brian -- you'll see him illustrating them -- to get it from a charismatic horse's mouth. Love to continue with you after that.

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