We must believe there is one God or supreme Monarch. We must believe that he is the father of whom are all things, and that he loves his people as his children that they may mutually love him and obey him as their father. We must believe that God is the pantocrator Lord of all things with an irresistible and boundless power and that we may expect great rewards if we do his will. Many people have believed largely in a biblical authority, but by the seventeenth century in Europe the founders of the new science were becoming so bold as to argue that, by directly cross-questioning nature as to what the present facts are, they would find out even more about God’s ways and his master plan. These first scientists, devout believers to a human, did not think they were doing anything dangerously radical, let alone subversive. They took it for granted that the World is God’s creation and that, if put to the test, it could only provide further living proof of his wisdom and munificence. Many people would rather believe in all the miracles and legends than that this Universal frame is without a mind. A little science might be a dangerous thing. However, deep science could only lead people further on the path of right and righteousness. Science itself could be a form of worship. Its purpose would always be to tell more of the sacred story, never undermine it. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

In our quieter moments we are all dreamers. Many scientists have the energy to study the scriptures and the Universe because they are looking for something more richer than the explanation that God created the Universe. And so they delved deeper, and deeper. They should perhaps have known it was curiosity not care that killed the cat. Some mysteries are better left alone. However wonderful a child may think his or her parents are for giving one life, it is probably not wise for the child to creep into the bedroom to try and get a closer view of the creative act. The Bible itself, in the story of the Fall, contains an early warning against wanting to learn more than is good for you. Many other cautionary tales tell of what happens to people who show too much zeal for knowledge. Pandora was told not to open the box that Zeus had given her, but she did—and out flew a swarm of evil sprites, all the bodily and mental ills that have ever since tormented the human race. Oedipus was warned by Tiresias against inquiring too deeply into his origins, but he did—and we know what a shocking discovery awaited him. Given the fact of God’s foreknowledge, we have not lapsed into determinism. Although God knows infallibly what an individual will freely do, such an infallible knows in no way determines the will of the individual. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

There is a cooperation or concursus of human’s free will with the divine grace. God foreknows from all eternity what an individual would do under certain circumstances if offered his grace. God wishes all people to be saved and he extends sufficient grace to all. With a passion, many scientists still seek knowledge. They wish to understand that hearts of humans, and they want to know why the stars shine. Remember, science requires your whole life. Even if you had two lives to give it would still not be enough. Science demands of people effort and supreme passion. What a scientist’s aim might be may sometimes be obscure, but their pains, their diligence at these times of working themselves into a frenzy, makes us believe that they are aimed at something beyond the reach of human art and industry. Some argue that it would be blasphemous not to make science one’s first priority. God, like any other artist, demanded an audience for his works, and would be upset if people took them too much for granted. In contrast to an earlier statement, because God created us with amazing intellectual capabilities, there is no reason to worry. For the more we pry into, and discover God’s works, the greater and ore glorious we find them to be, the more worthy of, and the more expressly to proclaim our great Creator. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

Limitless is our potential. Magnificent is our future, if we take control of it. It is often more rewarding to look at what science does than what people say about it. True researchers are commendable. When we follow the handy work of science, when and whither it leads us, we can admire the miracles, and set them forth to others. When it comes to any project with is massive and full of unknown territory, pain and expense are unavoidable.  There are indeed already martyrs in the cause of science. Archimedes had famously died at the hand of a Roman soldier, while contemplating a mathematical diagram in the sand. Galileo only just escaped with his life. Bacon himself met his end as the result of catching cold when stuffing a hen with snow in order to observe the effect of freezing on the preservation of flesh (the first—but by no means the last—experimental scientists to die in active service). Whatever the personal costs, however, it would not have occurred to any of these pioneers that their discoveries could possibly bring spiritual or even material costs to humankind as a whole. However, there is not a slightest doubt that these patterns of behavior will yield success and happiness and peace. If we follow our passions, our lives will be successful and good. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

We have to believe in the success of our endeavors. And as we grow, look back with appreciation for the manner in which we chose to live. The scientific study of human thought and action, undertaken by biologists, could have shown that there is no way of accounting for the obvious evidence for adaption and design in the structures of plants and animals without postulating a divine designer—with all that this would imply about God’s purpose in putting us on Earth. The Omega Point Theory, which is a model for an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, evolving, personal God who is both transcendent to spacetime and immanent in it, and who exists necessarily, is a spiritual belief and a scientific speculation that everything in the Universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of divine unification. The Omega Point Theory suggests a future Universal resurrection of the dead very similar to the one predicted in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The notions of grace and the beatific vision appear naturally in the model. Our word will have power in such degree as we sense that it is the activity of the spirit within us, and the law unto that thing spoken of. We should have a sense of the indwelling spirit, all-present and all-powerful. There must be no despair or uncertainty, nor even supplication or reverence, for the tomb gives up its dead not to the dead, but to the living. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

Knowing the truth is a spiritual treatment. To know that there is no person external to the likeness of God is part of the treatment. We must rise higher in consciousness than the condition we expect to heal. Peace is greater than the experience of pain. Focus on peace, love, and perfection, whereas pain is not; pain is an experience which is now eliminated, now completely reversed. Fear and faith are identical mental attitudes. The energy used in one is the same energy as that used in the other, since there is but one final energy in the Universe and this final energy is the energy of spirit. Even the study of physical chemistry could have shown, as Newton himself hoped, that in order to explain certain chemical reactions it is necessary to postulate the existence of subtle spirits and assume a principle of sociability, indeed it is necessary to understand the anima, and investigate the laws which are observed in these operations of the spirit, the powers and actions of the electrical spirit which pervade all bodies—with all that this would imply about the possibility of mystical union with nature. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

There are skillful reasons to explain the effect that certain present facts such as the crystallization of salts and the nest-building habits of birds, we are required to postulate the operation of principle called morphic resonance, whereby patterns in nature get preserved and communicated across the aether. In the process of morphic resonance, organizing systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. It its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the laws of nature are more like habits. This also means that memory storage in the brain and biological inheritance are inherited as collective memory from past members of the species, and also contributes to the collective memory, affecting other members of the species in the future producing promising outcomes. This means that development of the Earth as a whole is essentially purposeful—with everything tending toward an evolutionary goal (whose nature, admittedly, we human beings are not yet privileged to understand). Researchers have come up with a new way to encode digital data in DNA to create the highest-density large-scale data storage ability ever invented. Capable of storing 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) in a single gram of DNA, the system could store every bit of datum ever recorded by humans in a container about the size and weight of a couple of pickup trucks. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

We come to this Earth to nurture and discover the seeds of divine nature that are within us. DNA has many advantages for storing digital data. It is ultracompact, and it can last hundreds of thousands of years if kept in a cool, dry place. And as long as human societies are reading and writing DNA, they will be able to decode it. DNA will not degrade over time like cassette tapes, 8-track, and CDs, and it will not become obsolete. God sent us here to prepare for a future greater than anything we can imagine. The divine nature within each one of us is refined and magnified by the effort we make to draw nearer to our Heavenly Father. We identify with our divine nature as we feel and give the love of our Father in Heaven. We have the agency to nurture it, let it flourish, and help it grow. As we understand who we are, we begin to feel those precious promises. In our future, a day at a tie, comes alive when we do more than just exist; it comes alive when we live our lives to fill the measures of our creation. This invites the Lord into our lives, and we begin to let his will become ours. Divine nature breathers into us the desire to know these eternal truths for ourselves. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come. Once we begin to see the divinity in ourselves, we can see it in others. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8