0010 Okay, so there is a off-chance that there is wisdom… or… superstitious nonsense… that is independent of science, comes from the realm of theology, appears in the mirror of science and provides a weirdly compelling impression. After all, the start of the Developed Neolithic (projected into the mirror of theology) enhances the impressiveness of Genesis 1:30 (projected into the mirror of science). How can it be superstitious nonsense, when the Genesis verse sounds like a sign of the corresponding evolutionary period?
0011 With this impressiveness in mind, I reiterate the following.
Currently, the biological sciences present all evolution as continuous developments in time, although there are moments of radical… um… “re-organization”, hence the theory of punctuated equilibrium. When the evolutionary sciences cast their image of human evolution into the mirror, the theologian sees a picture that does not quite sync with the wild change of… um… “genre” that occurs the moment after God wraps up the Creation Story, by telling humans that they should give food to the animals (Genesis 1:30).
So, the question arises, “Is there a scientific proposal that would be in sync with this change in genre?
Yes, there is. It is called the hypothesis of the first singularity.
0012 Both human evolution and chapters one through three of Genesis portray two phases.
0013 Razie Mah offers three scientific masterworks that project well in the mirror of theology.
The first work is titled, The Human Niche. The human niche is the potential of triadic relations. This e-book covers the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.
The second work is titled, An Archaeology of the Fall. It dramatizes the scientific discovery of the first singularity. But, for those who prefer not to dally in fiction, there is The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace. In the series, “Crystallizations of the Fall”, this essay is paired with Original Sin and Original Death: Romans 5:12-19.
The third work is titled, How To Define the Word “Religion”. The accompanying course includes ten primers, starting with A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form. This course concerns our current Lebenswelt. It introduces the category-based nested form, which encompasses three logics, corresponding to firstness, secondness and thirdness. Thirdness brings secondness into relation with firstness.
Yes, these terms come from the philosophy of Charles Peirce. The logic of firstness is inclusive and allows contradictions. The logic of secondness is where the logics of contradiction and non-contradiction apply. The logics of thirdness are exclusion, complement and alignment.
0014 In sum, human evolution comes with a twist.
That twist is mirrored in the sudden shift of genres in the first two chapter of Genesis.