I just watched a cool TED.com video about the math behind not only biological lifeforms, but also cities and corporations. I think its well known that we are growing in population and urbanization at an exponential rate. The common question is how will we survive? Many answer the question with the statement that we have always innovated whenever it was crucial. Many of the graphs here show a hockey stick which indicates incredible growth, but the problem with that incredible growth is that its not sustainable forever, so we have to innovate before we collapse and start a new hockey stick. I'm sure many of you have noticed before but life is getting more and more hectic. There is just too much to take in and we often dismiss the important things in life in order to keep up. In contrast, I've noticed that the Lord's way is a cycle, its "one eternal round". It just keeps happening over and over again. You see it in biology, in death/birth, decay(entropy)/creation(organization), all of the early classic cultures talk about this (especially Egyptian), cycles of the sun, moon, stars, recycling of materials, nature. Its everywhere manifest in God's creations and his plan. This is sustainable and thus eternity becomes possible. For the physicist, its best represented by the fact that matter is neither created or destroyed, it just is. Given that fact, the creation account specifying that the earth was formed by the "organizing" of matter concurs with this fact and when the earth is transformed and receives its paradisaical glory, matter is transformed. It is not destroyed or blown to bits. The same thing goes for us. The interesting question is what kind of matter are our spirits made up of? I don't think we've figured that one out yet. Anyways, the whole point of this is that God's way is eternal, cyclical, cooperative, communal, and perfect. Mankind has a long way to go to figure that out and we're going in the wrong direction.
Link to the Ted.com video if you're curious.
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