Moreover, new forms of life have emerged over long periods of time hinting at a tendency toward novel complexity aimed at increasing the range and depth of possible experiences. The process that produced the first living cell and finally eventuated in the appearance of human beings with their marvelous capacities for thinking, feeling, and creating indicates a purposive element at work in the cosmos that requires explanation. Hence, the emergence of life, its evolution toward novel forms of complexity, and its goodness require explication by reference to primordial factors prior to and resident in the cosmic process. A theory is needed that explains the experienced world and our own experience of what it is to be a living being. My intuition is that the universe is in the business of producing life and promoting its fulfillment.
Life is the process by which the possible becomes actual under the lure of the good.
Hence, I project this observation and experience into the primordial situation as a way of developing a doctrine of God explanatory of the world as known to us in experience. I believe that the fact of evolving life and its experienced quality of goodness can plausibly be explained by reference to a trinity of factors incorporated into a di-polar version of naturalistic panentheism. A doctrine of God must provide a plausible explanation of the evolving cosmos and the experienced goodness of life that accompanies the self-awareness of our own existence. The following is an attempt to specify at least the minimal conditions essential to the process that generated the presently actual universe. Some scientists have speculated recently that the universe may have ultimately come into being out of nothing.