FINDING FAITH - 4

The Self-Organizing Universe

Science has proven that there is a tendency to self-organization in the universe, through the mathematics known as chaos theory. Nothing can remain random, because the natural perturbations within randomly moving material will always eventually create nonrandom groupings and clumpings of matter. Stars will always form in the hydrogen clouds of the vastness of space. There is a bias for increasing order even when chaos (randomness) is the starting point.

This is the start of evolution. Stars form, and we are formed from stars, in a process that takes a few tens of billions of years. We are star-stuff, all of us. There is an urge, a tendency, a pressure, toward ever greater complexity, toward greater intelligence, in all of us. God is building not from outside of the world, but from within it. The Mind of God is working in each of you, in every instant when you allow It.

When we say we are searching for God, we are claiming that God is not here, but somewhere else. Meanwhile, what we are searching for, we are searching with! We are seeing empty air, using God’s eyeballs! We are standing knee-deep in the river, and dying of thirst.

Remember the Last Supper, where Jesus picked up bread and wine, and said “This is my body, this is my blood.”? This is the man who said “I and the Father are One.”

He could just as well have said, “The whole earth is my body and my blood, I am one with it all. We were formed in the heart of the same star. We came from the big bang that began the universe. I am one with all things.”