Volume I About: Table of contents
Vision: We see humanity united in global religious harmony based on scientific understanding of the world in which we find ourselves
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The natural religion project: The purpose of this project is show that there are viable developments of traditional religion. The first step is to restore theology to the mainstream of science and so lay the foundations for religion consistent with ourselves and our world.
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Religion: Religion, we assume, takers over where biology leaves off to increase the fitness of human groups.
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Christianity:Christianity, through its association with political and economic power, has had enormous influence on human development. It is, however, too narrow to encompass the modern world.
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The Roman Catholic Church (RCC): The RCC is a corporation which claims a monopoly on Christianity. In the past it has used torture and murder to enforce its claims. The modern Church is a little more civilized, but it remains a monopolistic and dictatorial anachronism. Here is plays the role of 'brand X'.
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Science: Science is a method of seeking knowledge which holds that the models of the world we create in our minds can only be trusted if they test good against reality. Thoroughly tested scientific models tare to be trusted more than castles in the air.
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Theology: Theology is the science of god, here taken to be the whole. By attempting to embrace the whole human situation, theology hopes to provide a general coordinate system to guide our actions.
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Problem: The specific problem for theology is the evil that arises from religious conflict. The solution to this conflict begins with a global evidence based theology acceptable to all of us.
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Hypothesis; Our hypothesis is that the whole ('God' and 'the Universe') can be modelled with a 'transfinite network', a formal structure we imagine as a infinite number of computing machines ('Turing machines') linked into a communication network.
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Plan: Our plan is to develop and test this hypothesis, and encourage others to do the same. If we find that the model fits both human experience and traditional notions of God, we can use it to live more securely in our divine milieu.
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The author A glimpse of the source of this work.
