THE GAIA AND HYPER-GAIA HYPOTHESES

Scientific Evidence for Ephesians 4:15, 4:10 and 1 Corinthians 12:27

The Gaia Hypothesis states that all the life forms on Planet Earth work together to keep the planet life-bearing. There is much evidence for this. The heat output of the Sun has changed much down through the ages, and yet the temperature of our planet has maintained the narrow range necessary to maintain Life.

The level of atmospheric gasses has also remained, for the most part, a steady constant despite changing conditions. This is extremely important. If there were not enough oxygen in the atmosphere, fauna would die. If there were too much oxygen and not enough carbon dioxide and methane, plants would die and the atmosphere would be so flammable, fires would overrun the Earth.

Too much of both oxygen and carbon dioxide would also be fatal. But a third gas, methane, (produced by termites and digestion) is just abundant enough to keep the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in check.

Some kind of biological feedback system must be working to keep all this balanced. As of yet, there is no evidence Gaia is sentient, but She is biological. I strongly suspect that any sufficiently advanced Gaia would evolve into Sentience.

More about the Gaia Hypothesis at

http://www.gaianet.fsbusiness.co.uk/gaiatheory.htm

I believe in what I call the Hyper-Gaia Hypothesis, that all or some of the Gaias in the Universe or Multiverse work together, to keep the Universe or Multiverse Life Bearing just as life on Earth works to keep Earth life bearing. This is a simple, logical, rational explanation for the Strong and Modified Weak Anthropic Principle, and for the testimony of billions of people, (the author included) who have felt a loving "PRESENCE" when engaged in loving, submissive and welcoming prayer towards Christ.

An article in the December 2001, Reader's Digest on page 141 on brain scan images of people  experiencing the Divine indicates that feeling this PRESENCE is neither epilepsy nor Schizophrenia. We are hardwired to interact with what we call God, and you can be sure that, as with everything we are hard wired to experience, it has survival value.

Phase I Of Evolution and Beyond

The biggest leap forward in evolution occurred when different life forms learned to cooperate with one another. We went from being single celled organisms to multicellular organisms and from that major change grew all the variety we see around us. Love and cooperation, not competition, is what drives much of evolution, and among other things, "Christ is Love." (First Epistle of John 4:8).

I propose that the term, "supernatural" does not mean "antinatural." God is as natural a Being as any other life form. I propose as  Teilhard De Chardin did, that if the evolutionary process really is so strong that Humans and Whales can evolve from pond scum in just five billion or so years, God is perfectly capable of evolving in ten billion or so years. The pond scum did not even know where it was going and it had no will. We at least have a vague idea of where we are going, and we have the desire. Heaven also is buildable because Humanity is so tenacious we get what we want  eventually. We saw birds fly we learned to build machines that let us fly. We saw the Moon, we went there. We want to live forever, we evolve into God and build Heaven, just as we built Manhattan, the International Space Station and Disney World. To understand the Universe, all of space and time, one must see it as a whole. The next five billion years are every bit as real as the five billion years that have just come.  The Universe (and us) are works in progress and are nowhere near finished yet. We are looking at a half unfinished construction site and seeing a mess. Do not judge any construction site by what it looks like while still half finished. Judge it only by its finished state. God is the natural result of a perfectly natural process we can understand. Every link in the long evolutionary chain is the natural result of the link right before it, one stair step after another, one long and difficult but far from impossible climb. The journey is difficult and often painful but I believe the results are well worth it!

The pressure to survive will make this evolution necessary. The Universe we live in will not last forever. And when it dies you can be sure Life will not peacefully roll over and play dead. That is not the nature of life. So Life will "grow into the Head which is Christ" (Ephesians 4:15), in order to survive the end of this Universe, (if we haven't already done it sooner). Life will either have to find or make another universe, "a new Heavens and a new Earth," or repair this one. Either way we can't do it at our present level of development. Life will have to "grow into the Head which is Christ" just to survive. If we don't make it, it is a big Universe, somewhere Somebody will. Trying to stop evolution all over the Universe from reaching its Ultimate Life Form is like trying to stop a tidal wave or a volcano. Natural Forces of Nature you cannot stop. Maybe you can slow them down for a while but you can NOT stop them!

Why not Buddha instead of Christ? Read their words. It is obvious to anyone who does so, Buddha doesn't want the job, Jesus Christ does.

In a way the Kingdom of Heaven is a cosmic democracy. Whatever the Man from Galilee was originally in some alternate time line, long extinct, Human kind, or  Hyper-Gaia has chosen to make Him evolving Humanity's Head, and He has been given all the skills and powers necessary to hold down the job. If Humanity does not listen to Christ's message, that we FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER, it is only a matter of time before someone with nukes chooses to "get revenge."  If the chain reaction of revenge is not broken by forgiveness, our species is doomed. But even if we don't make it, its a big Universe out there,  God has plenty of breeding places. Will the Hyper-Gaia come out of  us, other species, computers or all of these? We choose by our actions and decisions.

 The laws of Biology teach us that survival of the fittest favors a nurturing God. Sea turtles lay many eggs and then abandon them. Alligators lay many eggs and guard them carefully.  Sea turtles are very endangered. Alligators are prospering. Survival of the fittest favors both a God who multiplies enormously and a God who nurtures His offspring. We can be sure God did not "wind up the Universe" and abandon it, as some Deists claim. The nurturing of offspring is a survival technique that works. He sticks around to guard His "nest." That is why prayer has been proved to affect organic tissue in double blind experiments.

Survival of the fittest also favors One who doesn't do too much for His children. Interfere too much and evolution ceases to be efficient, and we would have no motivation to grow up into the Head. Death must occur so there is room for evolution. Suffering must also occur so we may learn compassion for our fellow "cells of God,". It is more important that we learn love and compassion than any other lesson we could possibly learn. Without love and compassion we cannot evolve into He Who Is Love. It is also important that we are motivated to continue to learn medicine and other sciences.  We are His past. He is our future.

More proof of God:  Ecological niches. An ecological niche is the part of an ecological system that a particular life form occupies. There are predator niches, prey niches, plant niches, etc. Ecological niches tend not to stay empty. For example on the Galapagos Islands, the ecological niche of "woodpecker" was empty. So a little bird called the "Darwin's Finch" moved in and took that niche. They are one of natures few tool using birds. Lacking the ability to peck like woodpeckers, they actually fashion twigs into poking tools to pry insects out of the bark of trees. If necessary, even tools become part of evolution. We can be sure if the ecological niche of "God" really was empty for some reason, some Life Form would move in to fill the empty niche. As a friend of mine admitted, "There is probably a waiting line."

 Once Christ evolves to a certain point, He will expand to fill all of time and space plus every part of all the other dimensions Quantum Physics has discovered. It is the normal nature of Life to overflow whatever container it happens to be in. Once life escapes from the time space bubble, it is no trick to reenter it again at any point. This is how a Being whose Body is made up of us (1 Corinthians 12:27), can make the Universe that evolved Him. The Universe is a warm starry nest in which God raises Himself. The Earth is a kind of egg. The Lord creates the Universe evolves the Lord. Outside the time space bubble God the Father is changeless. Inside the time space bubble, God the Son evolves into God. As John 15 puts it, : ."Gospel of John, Chapter 15:1 "I Am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower, ² He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit He prunes to make it bear more fruit." Christ evolves until He escapes this Universe. As Ephesians 4:9 puts it. "When it says, 'He ascended,' what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the Earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the Heavens so that he might fill all things."

Phase II of Evolution

Phase I of evolution was single cells joining together into multicellular beings. Phase II is Individual brains joining  into One Being; Christ. Each one of us can evolve into a piece of Christ by asking Him into our "hearts." We do not lose our individually  by doing so. Just as every single cell in a multicellular being  keeps its own nucleus, we keep our own minds when we join the "Body of Christ." Indeed we gain individuality. One amoeba must be exactly like every other amoeba because each has to perform all the functions necessary for life. Individuals in a colony can specialize, each doing what it does best. So it is with the Body of Christ. Each single member has its own "nucleus" its own gifts and its own consciousness, but together we form a Gestalt, something greater than the sum of each individual member. Matthew 18:20. "For where two or three are gathered in my Name, I Am there among them." and John 4:10 "On that day you will know that I Am in my Father and you in me, and I in you." 1 Corinthians 12:27. "Now you are the Body of Christ and individually members of It." Ephesians 4:10. But speaking the truth in love we are to grow up in ALL WAYS into the Head, into Christ."

ARE YOU UP TO PERFORMING AN EXPERIMENT?

You can experience Christ, the Loving Presence mentioned above for YOURSELF  by performing a personal experiment with the Divine. If you perform this experiment lovingly, and humbly, when you are done, you will know God is not only real, but interested in you. But you must be willing to learn to forgive all those who have ever wronged you and accept forgiveness for yourself, and you must commit to allowing this Presence to change you into the Being He wants you to be. If you perform it half heartedly, or with no real intention of changing, you will get nowhere. Not everyone is up to performing this experiment,. Are you?

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