Theistic evolution over Darwinian evolution

Absolute Mind There are only two possible candidates we are aware of that could possibly be the cause or have the properties of an immaterial, omnipresent, eternal and conscious entity: either an abstract object (mathematics) or a human mind (consciousness).The first candidate would be abstract objects. Abstract mathematical objects are not found under rocks or grown out of trees nor are they understood to be contingent upon human minds, but yet they can apply to virtually everything that exist. Moreover, these mathematical objects are demonstrable and produce a large amount of predictive power, which has been useful in making highlyaccurate predictions in reality. Something that can generate many testable predictions is usually deemed not only scientific but a theory. The second candidate would be human minds. Human minds are understood to have agent causality where a cause would be able to bring about new effects at will without any physical dimensions or determining conditions by virtue of itsagency. This is called "substance dualism" where there are two fundamental kinds of substance: mental and material. The mental would not have extension in the spacial and temporal constraints with the universe but occupyan independent "realm" of existence distinct from that of the physical world: http://en.wikipedia.org...However, abstract objects are not supposed to stand in causal relationships with reality by definition, and human minds are understood to be intrinsically connected to material substances that naturally possess physical constraints on knowledge and power. Thus, if it cannot be an abstract object or a human mind, then maybe it’s a combination of the two which would involve a mind where there would not be a brain or body attached.An absolute mind would explain why you can get a temporal effect with a beginning from an eternal cause with unlimited properties. We should find, from more empirical observations, attributes of an all-knowing and all-powerful being exhibited within the universe.3. Omni-potent and Omniscience According to the BGV theorem, the expansion rate of the universe, which is called Eternal inflation, will continue to accelerate forever; this suggests that there's potentially an infinite degree of power being exerted to expand the universe. This is attributed to the cancellation effect between negative and positive energy, called the cosmological constant [9], which happens to be finely tuned to 120 decimal places making it the most well adjusted fine-tuning parameter of them all. Since this constant along with the rest were present from the very beginning of the universe, it follows logically that the cause for this beginning was responsible for the fine-tuning of the cosmological constant.Moreover, if this cause is all-powerful, then it would have to be all-knowing as well to know the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, the potential outcome of all future interactions of these particles, and be able to control and anticipate each potential outcome from this future eternal inflation in an inconceivably precise and error-free manner. Thus, this cause must be omniscient and omnipotent as well. 4. Theism Unlike, all the other gods (like Zeus, Apollo etc.) that have died out in the dust-bins of time, the belief of a Judeo-Christian God has endured throughout history and continues to sustain popularity within culture and society despite scientific inquiry being at a alltime high. Most importantly, with the Bible being the world’s greatest best seller of all time year after year, its popularity does not cover just a single region but expands into many different places around the globe [10]. However, according to development psychologists, there is a possible reason for this. We are naturally disposed, from an early age, to see purpose and meaning in everything, including the natural world. This tendency has been referred to as "implicit-theism", since it is the inclination to see purpose throughout our world [11]. This naturally disposes us to believe in a purpose-driven force in the universe: gods or a God. Thus, there needs to be a distinction between whether people are actually responding and connecting to an outside force or projecting a Judeo Christian God concept and their spiritual experiences into existence. A cognitive scientist told me that in order to know whether this being is interested in human affairs, this agency must seek to “interact with human nervous systems in such a way as to orchestrate the necessary neural activity that coincides with emotional attachment to itself”. This brought me to Andrew Newberg’s ongoing study in neuroscience that I stumbled upon. When researchers studied Judeo-Christian sects who were speaking in tongues by brain scanning them, there were decreased levels of activity in the frontal lobes while there was increased activity in the emotional centers of the brain [12]. Frontal lobes are an area in the brain that is responsible for self-control or will. This was significant because when they studied other religious practices, previous studies showed frontal lobes to be highly active suggesting that the participants created these experiences under their own power. Thus, from my research, (eternal, omnipresent, immaterial, personal, omnipotent and omniscience) we can define the cause in this manner.The Divine intelligence takes the form of an absolute mind as the potential cause for all the known phenomena and is actively involved in human affairs. GOD HYPOTHESIS As human beings, we generally view ourselves as mind-body composites. However, what if all of reality itself is maintained by a greater consciousness that Max Planck himself referred to as “the matrix of all matter”. This absolute mind would not have extension in the spacial and temporal constraints within the universe but occupy an independent "realm" of existence distinct from that of the physical while the material world would largely rely and depend upon this mind to operate accordingly. The interaction between this mind and the universe would be similar to the human mind’s interaction with the brain where it manifests in the physical world through the body. Moreover, what if all of humanity was specially created for some greater purpose, and we possess an additional 6th Sense (spirit) among our other five senses (mind-body) that enables us to connect with this being in a special way in order to help us understand this ultimate purpose of life. This ultimate meaning of life would be to either accept a personal relationship with this designer or reject this purpose and find our own meaning in life. I will call this the God hypothesis. Theistic Model The theistic model is similar to the recently revived “hopeful monster” hypothesis, pioneered by Richard Goldschmidt, except it proposes consciousness as an additional mechanism to ensure there is a healthy dose of hopeful monsters for early macro evolutionary development as Alfred Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, once proposed. The following studies within this model provide examples of how an intelligence would have carried out the evolutionary process and why invoking a Divine intelligence is necessary to explain the diversity of life on a biochemical and morphological level. In addition, the Judeo-Christian God happens to match the description of my hypothesis exactly. This means we can use the Genesis account within the bible to see if this being actually uniquely engineered us in a certain way that enabled him to reveal certain truths about his character and his purpose for humanity through what is called, “Special Revelation”:In the next round, I will show the model. [9] http://arxiv.org... [10] http://www.ptl.org...[11] http://www.yale.edu...[12] http://andrewnewberg.com...