Professor Thomas Lindell is a Progressive Christian who incorporates Big Bang cosmology and evolutionary biology into his critical appropriation of Big History. Big History and Progressive Christianity. Any connection?
Like a volcano, AI potential is spreading excitement and turmoil across the landscape. We must ask: will there be a connection between AI and Radical Life Extension? Certainly our transhumanist friends think so. How does Radical Life Extension and its partner, Cybernetic Immortality, compare with religious visions of the afterlife? AI and Radical Life Extension: a secular eschatology?
Does worship of the earth-mother goddess, Gaia, connect with the paradoxical religious sensibilities of the Beyond and the Intimate? Gaia's Wizard invites us to limit the divine to Planet Earth.
How big is God? Big enough to create more than a trillion galaxies with billions of habitable exoplanets containing extraterrestrial life? Yes, answer astrophysicists speaking at the 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions. Is the God of the Bible big enough to create 1.1 trillion galaxies?
I'm heartend by the overflow of heartfelt commitment to the future generations who will live in the biosphere the present generations are destroying. And I'm heartened that persons in such a wide variety of religious traditions are of one mind regarding the urgency for global repentance, metanoia, and transformation. I'm joining in the planetary hugs. Yet, what we need are practical strategies deriving from scientific visions of just what needs to be done in order to heal what is broken in the human relationship with the biosphere. Planetary hugs should add science and technology.