God’s Creation – a Parable

God’s Creation – a Parable

God created all that is in the universe and universes within universes. This experiment is metamorphosizing to this very day.

God needed help in controlling his creation and experimented with various approaches to find a partner. Microrganisms served some useful purposes as did plants, trees, insects, animals, and fish. He tried increasing size, strength, numbers, changing appearances, organ functions and types, physical size and strength, and intelligence. After millions of years, God settled on intelligence as worth pursuing.

God scattered various amounts and type of intelligence among his test subjects. He gave them tools to sense their environment. Eyesight protected the creature from other creatures, find like creatures to mate with and, within the limits of their intelligence, to understand their world. Hearing protected the creature as well, helped it to find mates, and led to appreciation of its surroundings. A sense of smell, helped creatures sense food or toxic materials, find attractive mates and enjoy the aromas around them. Similarly, senses of taste and touch became useful and enjoyable tools to different creature.

Over time, God found that increasing intelligence had the best chance of success. Rather than start all over again and invent new creatures, he simply attached megabytes of brainpower on top of primitive brains. This worked fairly well although it could not erase unreasonable fears of other creatures or a predilection for engaging in violence. He hard-wired the brain to believe in the existence of God, in order to improve lines of communication about the goodness of God and out purpose on Earth. God hoped that mankind (men and women) would learn this lesson and help him improve life on Earth and the universe itself. God’s plan was to have all matter and energy work together to create a greater good.

One day, God introduced a software update, containing language skills, artistic skills, and mathematical skills and watched his creatures progress over time. Language skills and an alphabet eventually gave his best creature, mankind, the ability to create all that has ever been written, including all the wisdom ever learned on this Earth.

Mathematical skills allowed humans to count and soon to buy and sell, based on how may apples one wanted to buy and how many of something else could pay for the transaction. From bartering, came currency and a banking and investment system. With time, as God hoped, man turned his interests to using mathematics to learn more about the world. Man built telescopes, microscopes, and many other inventions to expand his knowledge. He also learned about atoms, molecules, and the relation between, matter and energy. Sometimes, this brought on dangerous consequences, such as bombs and mass killing of fellow creatures. God understood that the universe that He created was built upon creation and destruction and hoped mankind would concentrate its efforts toward creation good everywhere, thus moving the universe toward perfection.

As scientists probed the mysteries of medicine, philosophy, and science, there was a greater appreciation of helping God achieve greater goodness. Scientists found it was good when mathematics resulted in simpler equations and that this knowledge helped mankind understand his origins better and his place in God’s plan.

Artists, poets, composers also described, through means, such as sculpting, painting, drawing, writing, and singing, using all our senses, brought visions of a better world.

Religious figures and philosophers debated, learned, and taught about how our achieving goodness in our interactions with the world, helps bring us towards God’s goal for all his creations.

God sees that his plan is working within the limitations inherent in his creations. Since he measures time in eons, God watches patiently as progress is made.

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Many of us may not accept the above parable in its literal sense. It is still an intriguing thought that some force caused what we call the “Big Bang” and created a process that works on its own, in a violent dance between energy and matter where, through trial and error, over billions of years a means of continuing the pursuit of perfection to infinity is created. While worlds, suns, and universes will continue to be created and destroyed in the multiverse, the knowledge and understanding learned will continue to exist and be transferred to new planets and be mixed with the learning from every source of life, until perfection is reached.

That perfection will be God’s gift to his creation.

^©Norman F. Estrin, Ph.D., February 21, 2015, “God’s Creation – a Parable”