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... to restore theology to the mainstream of science
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chapter 0 : Introduction:
chapter 1 : Epistemology: For the practical purposes of survival, communications must be reliable. Epistemology is the discipline that tests the correspondence between messages and the situations they represent.
chapter 2 : Model: The creative step in science is to imagine a model that explains the data. Here we propse a model which fits both the traditional notion of god and the observed properties of ourselves and our world.
chapter 3 : Physics: Given the assumption that God and the universe are one,physics is the study of God's body. At the foundation of modern physics lies the quantum of action. Quanta of action are the alphabet from which all processes in the universe are built.
chapter 4 : Biology: We live, and our life has evolved, on a physical foundation. We understand the enormous subtlety and complexity of life by using physical means of communication to observe the recursive evolution life.
chapter 5 : Cybernetics: A living creature survives, grows and reproduces by controlling itself and its environment. Cybernetics is the science and communication and control. It shows us the possibilities and limitations of all processes, including life.
chapter 6 : Psychology: The evolution of our species and our environment has taken billions of years. The evolution of an individual human mind takes only a few decades. Each of us has experienced this development personally and seen it happening in others. This community of human experience is our foundation for the unification of theology.
chapter 7 : Theology: Theology talks about god, that is the whole of reality. Theology links our personal, local understanding of the world to a vision of the whole which shows us where we fit in, and how we must 'please' god to thrive.
chapter 8 : Love: Love is the nexus between thought and action. The previous section on theology is the apogee of our thought. Now we turn, through love, to putting these thoughts into practice.
chapter 9 : Culture: Culture is the sum of all human communication protocols, things like spoken and written language, music, art, architecture, etc. The insights of religion are communicated through our society by culturally encoded networks.
chapter 10 : Religion: Religion applies theology. We now begin to apply our theological model to the particular problems of human existence. Religion undertakes this task at the most general level, seeking to specify our place in the whole and so the meaning of our lives.
chapter 11 : Politics: Politics arises because the resources for life are finite. Since everybody cannot have everything they want choices are necessary, particularly choices between what to consume and what to save.
chapter 12 : Economics Our health and happiness are closely tied to physical wealth in the form of food, shelter, communications, health and so on. We maximize real freedom of choice by maximizing real wealth without compromising the world that sustains us.
chapter 13 : Design: Wealth increases with productivity. Productivity, the wealth created per unit of human effort, is determined by the design of products and productive systems. Better design yields more human benefit with less human cost, less waste and less environmental impact.
chapter 14 : Work: Work is the physical realization of a design to produce a new organ of life such as a washing machine, a treaty or a marriage. Work is concerned with every little detail that it necessary to make something happen.
chapter 15 : Heaven: Joy, bliss, happiness, contentment, security, peace: the reasonable realization of of those things that we desire. Our task, the creation of heaven on earth, is to seek safe and effective ways to satisfy our desires.
(revised 19 June 2007)
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