Pope Benedict’s Recent Statements On the Big Bang & the Transudationist Paradigm

All life is a form of light, and the cosmos is a holonic Holy Hologram

In the course of celebrating the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star, Pope Benedict delivered a sermon at St. Peter’s Basilica in which he made the following statements:

• "The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe."
• "Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God."

According to various news reports, Pope Benedict stated that some scientific theories were "mind limiting" because "they only arrive at a certain point ... and do not manage to explain the ultimate sense of reality ..." Moreover, it is reported that the Pope said that scientific theories on the origin and development of the universe and humans, while not in conflict with faith, left many questions unanswered: "In the beauty of the world, in its mystery, in its greatness and in its rationality ... we can only let ourselves be guided toward God, creator of heaven and earth," he said.

Please see the following news articles for details concerning Pope Benedict’s recent statements:

• God Responsible for Big Bang and Universe Creation, Pope Says
• God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
• Pope: God Was Behind the Big Bang

Pope Benedict’s position on this particular issue is congruent with one of the key tenets of Transudationism, namely, that the cosmos is not the result of undirected material processes, but rather that there is a Creator being/entity responsible for the origin of the visible universe, i.e., the Big Bang. More specifically in this regard, Transudationism asserts the following:

• The "Big Bang" was actually a "Big Seed."
• There is a Creator, whose identity is unknowable.
• The Creator is best perceived as a spiritual gardener.
• The cosmos is a holonic, living organism.
• Therefore, the "Big Bang" was actually an autotelic cosmic seed and the universe is an organism for cultivating Consciousness/Spirit/Geist.
• All history is the history of the evolutionary transubstantiation of matter to Spirit via biological-life processes of Blood and Reason.
• ALL life is precious.
  

For more information on Transudationism, the reader is invited to read the following three articles:

1. A Hypothesis Favoring the Existence of a Creator
2. Thoughts on Stephen Hawking's new book The Grand Design
3. On Arsenic-loving Bacteria & Roger Penrose's New Book Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

It is respectfully submitted that the Big Bang was not a random expansion of space-time matter-energy (i.e., it was not an event analogous to a “bomb” “exploding”); rather, it was an ordered ex­pansion of space-time matter-energy (i.e., it was an event analogous to a “seed” “sprouting”): therefore, it did not “explode” – it sprouted. As to who or what “planted” it, there is no way to know. Nevertheless, Aristotle’s notion of the unmoved Mover (or God, if you prefer) is a sound hypothesis. Therefore, adherence to a theistic-spiritualistic-teleological paradigm is just as, if not more, sound than is adherence to an atheistic-materialistic-evolutionist paradigm; note please the use of the term evolutionist: evolution of course is true, scientific, and undeniable. Evolutionism, on the other hand, is the philosophy of nihilism: evolutionism is nothing more than atheist metaphysics.

Perhaps Darwin didn’t per­ceive the larger, all-encompassing order – the layered, nestled, hierarchical space-time matter-energy bioelec­trical harmonic webbed nexuses of holonic planes and dimensions – in which the processes of evolution un­fold, without which evolution could not engender ever more complex life and consciousness: but for the proto-order somehow embedded in the Big Seed, blind, random evolu­tionism seems incapable of producing anything other than chaos. Evolution seems more a cosmic process, initiated by whatever entity/force begot the "Big Seed"; it seems undeniable that the cosmos has gradually, incrementally self-organized - from the very small to the very large, and that we are a teleologically unfolding part of that gradual, incremental, self-organized expansion.

It is respectfully submitted that this perspective successfully defends the proposition that adherence to a paradigm of theism-spiritualism-teleology is just as, if not more, sound than is adherence to a paradigm of atheism-materialism-evolutionism.

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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? Is it right that man’s life and society’s activities have to be determined by material expansion in the first place? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to the detriment of our spiritual integrity?

If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.

This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but – upward.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn From “A World Split Apart,” Delivered at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, Thursday, June 8, 1978

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The seed of the universe is the big bang, says Kyle McDermott in "The Declaration of White Independence: The Founding Documents of Transudationism". An explanation of this view which holds that all of current humanity and life on Earth today was intentionally set in motion all those billions of years ago, "The Declaration of White Independence" probes matters of cosmological significance with straightforward candor and accessibility. Featuring intriguing concepts and ideas, "The Declaration of White Independence" is highly recommended for metaphysical studies shelves. -- Midwest Book Review