God´s Existence and Emergentism

The awareness of a transcendental Creator God´s existence has arrived in the present through what might be called the Historical Sociological argument, with the coherence and correspondence of prophets and Jesus in Judeo-Christianity the line that developed modern Universities from monastic schools and ancient Greek philosophy among eclectic influences.

A transcendental Creator God´s existence, and related metaphysical notions, are affirmed in many traditions and Christianity in particular. It is also asserted in the metaphysical philosophical argument of the modern Kalam Cosmological Argument. The argument is now supplemented firmly by scientific philosophy, since the Big Bang event has been identified in scientific philosophy. The Kalam argument then places scientific philosophy in its causal framework, and what is now an emergentist framework in Systems Theory, as well. It states, based on the question, Does the Universe have a cause? The syllogism follows, as laid out by W.L. Craig: Anything that exists physically and energetically has a cause. The Universe exists. Therefore, the Universe has a cause.

The argument can be further fleshed out by noting that "emergentism" has been studied in more detail with Systems Theory. That gives us more clarity to understand that, for example, chemistry has a proximate system as its "cause," and that is physics. Yet, chemistry is emergent because its properties can´t be predicted just by knowing physics. They are discontinuous in that respect. In one general issue, chemistry also caused biology, with biology having emergent properties. Biology also manages to hold off physical entropy, as one example of supervenience, altering the simple notion of physics as being causally primary. Physics "causes" chemistry, with elemental and molecular Hydrogen, Oxygen, and energy then showing chemical behavior in a reaction and forming H2O water. Water has novel characteristics. We can call that a proximate cause, but also need to recall that there are philosophical Levels of Analysis and Explanation. Thus philosophically, Big Bang theoretical cosmology has worked out some key, even highly complete, scientific ideas about the theoretical developmental details of physics into chemistry.

It´s worth noting further that human evolutionary biology from non-human primates to human symbolic psychology and anthropology behavior is also an emergent step in this scientific philosophical sense. Shamanistic spiritual-religious healing, and its Christian and modern transpersonal psychosomatic forms, are operating at the psychosocial and cultural levels, and transpersonal and transcendental levels. My favorite Christian Science testimony is of a group of British POWs in a Japanese camp. While everybody was suffering from malnutrition, the Christian Scientists organized in prayer and were not affected. They were asked to stay until last when the Americans liberated them. More recently, Christy Beam´s testimony of her daughter´s illness in relation to a Boston doctor, and final healing in a Near Death Experience in Miracles From Heaven was a 2016 film.

Well. Here´s a physics presentation that is pretty exciting and well done that includes "consciousness," and other key things. They don´t actually acknowledge that they´re doing philosophy, but we can thank them later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4JkgKDaR0 All that reasoning has us observing that God the Creator, then, has been called "omnipotent." But I´ll leave that for another OP.... Are you familiar with the Kalam Cosmological argument, and the implications of "emergentism"?