Heaven by Design: A Speculative Observation on Teleological Creation

* Some things are just too interesting to be considered merely random or accidental:
pi = 3.14159265359...
Fibonacci = 1.61803399
e = mC²
A solar eclipse with corona
The Anthropic Principle
conscience & moral law
Faith in God, and ourselves

The Cosmos was created by an Intelligent Designer, who shaped by divine fiat commands the physical constants and natural laws which gave rise to the Universe, the Earth, Life and to Us. The whole process is far larger and more complex than we can, as yet, understand. We have neither the intellect, nor the tools to grasp its secrets and significance. Evolution is not simply random, it is stochastic, i.e., aimed to fit in a given environment and ecological niche. It has all been manipulated toward a purposeful end, which we are not yet able to guess.

But the simple stories in our Holy Scriptures only barely and obliquely hint at the God who willed humanity and our theater into being. Reading them as the complete and inerrant Truth is a fool's venture, while looking through them to see farther is like opening a door into eternity. Take the story of Noah and the Flood, for example. Noah is tasked to save Civilization, to build a boat to ride out a global devastation. So are we, now that we know an errant asteroid can wipe out most of the life on earth. We are tasked to build great ships, to rescue terrestrial life from its single fragile basket, and to maybe defend the earth itself from catastrophe.

The Father manifested the Grand Cosmos, containing all of the huge galaxies that we see, and more. His Grand Scheme, intricate blueprints and beautiful designs, hold more secrets than we can imagine. He beckons us to strive for progress.

The Son created humanity. He domesticated us from the wild apes to become men. He showed us how to build our civilizations, and taught us how to live by Freedom, Wisdom, Love and Truth. He is still watching us, interceding for us.

The Holy Spirit lives in our hearts and minds, leading us to know how to pursue what is best in our souls, and put aside the darkness that retards our progress. He helps us to choose our best and highest ideals, to pursue what makes us worthy of Heaven.

For Heaven is the aim which the Father and the Son have planted in our hearts, and tuned our minds to seek, with both faith and science, so that our knowledge may help us build it in our skies. Our ultimate niche, which we can evolve to fit, is the vastness of Space, where we will learn to use the resources so conveniently at hand to build our homes and ecological habitats. (Imagine, if we had no Moon, or if the Earth was just a little bit too heavy, we would be stuck down here.) If we follow the Holy Spirit, to rectify our human nature, we can one day build the City of God, high above us, and live there in happiness and peace forever.

Phi = 1.618033988749...
It is an unstable irrational number, which proves that creation is as much a skill, handiwork, as it is an automatic algorithm. It shows why God employs a stochastic process like evolution to develop Life. It is a bridge between mathematics and theology, which shows that God does allow free will, and makes it necessary for us to "Choose Life," in the continual effort to fit into both His Kingdom and the World as we know it.

William Shakespeare,
Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2 --
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

Should we not become all that we are meant to be?