Thursday, October 20, 2011

Four general scientific assumptions in the faith of ECC


We know there are many acts of faith in the Revealed Religions, but Raymond Cattell remarked on the fact that science too has its faith or assumptions : It has to deny Berkeley's claim that the external world is a dream (thus also countering the later and still existing relativity of existentialism); And science accepts Descartes argument for the external world being a reality: Also Cattell's Beyondism requires the assumption that evolution exists as a central fact within the universe, and Beyondism commits itself to this principle.

The Theoevolutionary Church (TC) goes beyond Beyondism with the assumption, or faith, that life is evolving to Godhood. This brings science back to religion. TC believes that the Inward Virtual God seen in the Revealed Religions was a precursor to the Outward Godhood evolved to in the cosmos.

These are general principles and a general faith, there will be more exact science coming in the future, and also arriving with the evolution of higher intelligence.  But with these assumptions and this faith accepted, all kinds of things in both science and religion fall into place.

This brings TC within the conservative dynamic. The emotional beliefs of the Revealed Religions can be sustained in the Twofold Path, such as the faith in future life, and the traditional stability of small states and family life can offer stability for favorable upward-going genetic advances---war and revolution often greatly hinder successful survival and reproduction. Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism is our synthesis or answer to both science and religion.   

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