Bringing science and religion together around a common understanding of the origin of life.

I have become embroiled in a struggle with promoters of anti-religious scientism after presenting a theory that life on Earth started on a minor early solar system body I call Ushas. The fundamental idea is that life started with the convergence of a unique, or nearly-unique, set of circumstances in the early solar system. The most improbable event was that a nearby gamma ray burst was aimed directly at the solar system. This generated the highly active molecules necessary for life. There are billions of research dollars at stake because my theory undermines NASA's current dogma of spontaneous generation of life on wet planets, e.g., the Earth and icy moons with internal oceans. People from Blue Marble Earth, which promotes the current dogma, are making it clear they are intolerant of opposition. I have been saying that my goal is to bring science and religion together around a common understanding of the origin of life, so I am here to open a dialogue with evangelical Christians to balance the science discussions I have been engaged in. My anti-religious opposition apparently thinks that if they can maintain a schism between science and religion they can achieve total victory.

My religious practice is with the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. UUs have a Christian background but are not Christians because they are non-creedal I am the active scientist in the group and have been studying the mathematical basis of reality informally at UC-Berkeley. The coronavirus shutdown of campus has cut me off from the academic databases and face-to-face contacts there so I have switched to online outreach. My philosophy goes well beyond the typical reductionism to physics. I see that there is a natural trinity of physical reality, information, and consciousness that underlies the Christian trinity.

Physical reality contains a form of "maya" (commonly translated as "illusion") in which chemistry is in the foreground and the geometrical structure of matter is in the background. This is necessary to explain why complex cells evolved before simple ones. Information reality was well understood by Plato, but he wrote in a cryptic style to hide his more radical ideas from his opponents, who had executed his teacher Socrates. Because I have a knowledge of modern mathematical science, I could easily decrypt the riddle of "Plato's Number", though no correct solution has been published in thousands of years. I strongly break from contemporary scientific tradition by being a Biblical scholar. I see that Abrahamic religion describes its replacement by a new social order in our times. The "new heaven and new Earth" in Revelation 21: 1 refers to a new cosmology, which is what I have been studying. "No sea" translates as "no impassible cosmic sea", i.e., space exploration has become possible.

At the moment my research is on connecting science, law, and social action. Mathematical description of reality is emotionally dead for most people. We are being subjected to a crisis giving rise to fear on many fronts, e.g., disease, economic collapse, and social strife. In the U.S. the Magna Carta is no longer taken as the first organic law, so something needs to replace it. The divergence in ideas at the time of the writing of the Constitution was too great, so constitutional law also needs to be radically reformed. I see that World War II has become the new Runnymede and that FDR's Four Freedoms speech in January 1941 has become the new legal starting point. Since then the four freedoms of expression, of worship, from want, and from fear have been written into international law. Freedom from fear is the most basic because it is gained through knowledge, which is supported by the other three freedoms. Freedom from fear has also been put on our agenda right now, so our priority needs to be on the social action necessary to bring it about.

A lot of people propose that since "there is no reality before we observe it"

it's called 'the Copenhagen interpretation' that things do not exist until observed. people do not observe the whole universe -- if we were creating reality by observation than there would not be any reality beyond our gaze, both in distance and in time. no history, no far away places or events.
but God sees everything; God alone sees all things. the 'observer effect' implies the existence of an universal observer - of God.

The Bible can be proven to be the Word of God, because prophecy and what are called macro-codes (which is inherent in the design of the text) can be proven to be outside the dimensionality of time. This can be proven, and thus it must be acknowledged that the Bible is not just another text of moral incentives, but rather the communication of the creator of the universe.

Nearly all great cultural heroes have their biographies rewritten by later generations to be more supernatural. For the New Testament this is understood to have occurred by the late first century. Thus most of the "prophecies" there based on the Old Testament can be explained by authors having knowledge of the Old Testament when they did the rewriting. There are a few prophecies that fall outside of this category. They are not, however, "outside the dimensionality of time". The bidirectionality of causality allows fulfilled prophecies and periodicities in time.

From the ignostic perspective, the word "God" is so diverse in meaning that it does not contribute significantly to the conversation any more than do the diversity of physics interpretations that have no way of distinguishing among themselves.

quantum physics verifies scripture & reveals the invisible qualities of God, Who sees all that is in secret.

This can be proven to be false; the Septuagint was written and in black and white (so to speak) years before a lot of these prophecies came to pass. One of the most fantastic prophecies that was in the Septuagint before it happened was the prophecy given to Daniel concerning Jesus Christ, and when He would come, and what He would do when He came.

The Bible does prove to be outside of the dimensionality of time, by its inherent design. I challenge you to name one place in the Bible where it contradicts known science at this time. The Bible speaks of paths of the seas before we even knew of currents, ...

From the ignostic perspective

Read what someone says before you run off and claim what they are saying is false! I said that a few prophecies were not attributable to rewriting. You are just presenting one of those of which I was thinking. Your details are disputable. Most of them depend on the New Testament, so fall under the category of being explainable by rewriting.

Being compatible with science does put the Bible "outside of the dimensionality of time".

Nearly all great cultural heroes have their biographies rewritten by later generations to be more supernatural.

i'm not sure that you understand the objection being raised.
the Septuagint was translated some 300 years before the NT was recorded, and faithfully copied & preserved by people antagonistic to the message of the NT. no Jewish objection is ever historically raised about inaccuracy of citations that Christian authors make from the OT.