The Theory of Balanceology has significant nature-based underpinnings.  And, part of those underpinnings relate to how Nature has taken something that is inanimate (non-life) and it has become animate (of life).  A life that on its long evolutionary path will create human beings. It is now known that the animate and the inanimate are both in motion. They are in constant hyper movement. In some yet to be understood way abiotic non-living energy-matter in motion, becomes living energy-matter in motion. This living energy-matter after countless evolutionary transformations on its way to us will have sensations, the ability to build relationships, love, procreate, make moral decisions, emote, and to have various levels of consciousness. John Brockman asked what is “the difference between living matter, and nonliving matter? Over here is an organization of molecules and it’s a living cell; over there is an organization of molecules and it’s just matter. What is it that makes something alive?” (2003) Quite outstanding questions. I have come to appreciate the concept of hylozoism that declares that all physical matter has life within it, because everything at the atomic level has energy in motion. Dominican monk Giordano Bruno supported the concept of hylozoism arguing that everything is alive. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin goes further by explicitly stating that there is no real distinction between inorganic matter (lithosphere), organic matter (biosphere), and of thinking conscious matter (noosphere). Hylozoism has become a useful concept in building my case for a naturalistic unified and balanced worldview. Question:  “Is …

Abiogenesis alludes to living organisms coming from non-living matter. This concept has been difficult for me to understand and has absorbed a lot of my attention. Just think about —> life from nonlife or pre-biologic becomes biologic.  At times, I will refer to the animate-inanimate, the organic-inorganic, or the living-nonliving. Nature is amazing!  I have asked myself, “How does Nature of the non-living become Nature of the living?,”  “What are the life-bringing elements that came together in order to create  life?” and, “Where is that evolutionary fine line, that fine balance between nonlife and life?” I am intrigued as to when this nonlife-life line was first crossed from the geo to the bio. How did the geo-chemical sphere (mineral world) become the biological sphere (world of life)? How did the elements of energy-matter become bio-factorial, bio-active, and bio-energetic? They are remarkable questions that still haven’t been sufficiently answered by science. Scientists have discovered that it is very difficult to tease out the micro-geo elements from the micro-bio elements. Abiogenesis is just a fascinating subject that I will make reference to in the posts to come.

Big Bang -> Big Birth -> Big Gift – I have a magnanimous appreciation for the precious gift of life.  I have the gift of life embedded in my nature-based Theory of Balanceology. How special it is that you and I are connected to a 3.7 billion year chain-of-life. Whitman proclaimed, “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you should assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” (1892) The Talmud declares that if just one life is saved it is if saving an entire world. Albert Schweitzer professed a veneration for all of life. Schweitzer’s philosophy of life can be summarized as “the reverence for life.” For him life must be valued, preserved, protected, and promoted. Life is precious, it is a gift, yet how fragile life can be. I adamantly embrace and support the treasure of life, and I am saddened how often I have taken my life for granted. Before any life is taken for any reason we must be cautious. I now realize that it is a distinctively appropriate idea to value my life and to respect the long history it has taken to become us.  That is, the drawn-out history from the Big Bang’s primordial atom, and onto the Big Birth’s life-bearing primordial cell. We are naturalistic-biological creatures. Cells are the atoms of biology, and this atomic-cellular history has given me additional footage in documenting a naturalistic worldview. The Big Bang is of quantum-energy <—> life-energy is of …

In order to build a theory and a worldview I could attest to and follow, I bumped into James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis many times.  For me, his hypothesis involves all forms of evolution,  the environment, human interaction with the world we live, etc.  Lovelock proposed a global unified system of Nature’s unity. For him, in an ecological sense everything is unified and interconnected. In an ecological sense Nature concerns and contains a unifying consubstantial substance. Lovelock called his unified theory the Gaia Hypothesis. In later posts,  I will detail where there is a search to discover a Theory of Everything (TOE) —> a unifying substance for all that exists. Lovelock maintained that the physical realm (inanimate) interacts with the biological realm (animate). There is a worldwide flow of energy-matter between and among these two realms making for a unification between all nonliving and living things. It was Lovelock who proposed that Nature is all about finely balanced interconnectedness. He had environmental concerns and looked on the Universe as being a superorganism having a precarious balance that must be maintained in order to properly function. That is, in order to function properly the Universe needs to preserve an internal and external unified balance that has interdependence and interconnections.  His hypothesis reinforces that we better watch what we are doing to the environment we live in. I recently watched a frightening 60 Minute episode, and the huge spread of man-made plastics throughout the Earth, and how they are hurting our environment. I view …

The Theory of Balanceology presents a model that has strong nature-based roots.  And, this nature-based roots includes human nature. I planned on presenting human nature inheritance in later posts.  But because of certain discussions that have been taking place, I decided to present the Out of Africa Theory of human inheritance now.  I hope it gets a non-offensive discussion going. Eldredge indicates, “humans provide a great example of a far-flung (global) species that has visibly – and genetically – diverged over 100,000-200,000 years.” (2004) I endorse the Out of Africa Theory that homo sapiens evolved in Africa and then migrated in many directions into Europe, Asia, and eventually across the entire globe. We have always been a wandering wanderlust species where various groups physically meandered out of Africa thousands of years ago to settle and find their place on Earth. I advance the notion that each one of us is a roaming vagabond who is psychologically and physically attempting to fine our place in the world. I declare the Out of Africa Theory denotes that all humans have links with our primogenitor African relatives, and this makes us all children of Africa. Cro-Magnon man had a brain size and anatomical skeletal structure similar to us, and is considered to be the first homo sapien. I am interested in the fact, and enjoy studying that on our evolutionary path to become homo sapiens there were human-like species  we interbreed with and we now have anywhere from 10-20 stretches of their DNA on …

Nature involves duality, unity, and balance. And, Nature significantly includes the natural pattern of  cyclicity —-> a pattern that tends to move in cycles. “The weeping philosopher,” Heraclitus of Ephesus, referred to a stream of cyclicity that is found in Nature.  He proposed a theory where the natural world contains a dynamic cyclical process that constantly unfolds, flows, changes, and moves, and he poetically wrote, “out of life comes death, and out of death life,  out of the young, the old, and out of the old, the  young, out of waking sleep, and out of sleep waking, the stream of creation and dissolution never stops.” (Cent BC) Nature has been on a recycling voyage for 13,700,000,000 years. Nature is frugal.   Goswami said, “cyclicity – water evaporates and forms clouds, then comes down as snow in the highest peaks of the mountains. The snow melts and becomes the source of rivers, which then find their ways to the ocean, only to evaporate and the cycle continues.” (1995) The law of conservation of mass-energy can  be seen in  Nature’s  cyclicity. Cyclicity can be seen in Nature’s life, death,  and rebirth.  Cyclicity includes a circle of  life-death, where the extinction of some  leads  to the creation of others.  Nature’s cyclicity can be seen in the four seasons of Spring,  Summer,  Fall,  and Winter.  Neal Walsch came to view the Universe  “as  part of a  living system.” (2004)  In this  system atoms and molecules recycle, and constantly become part of another animate and inanimate object.  …

It is true that Nature has its dualistic yin-yang component. But another profound component of Nature is its tendency towards coming together and unity. It was ancient Greek cosmologist Anaxagoras who suggested a unity of being for everything that has ever existed. Anaxagoras seems to be well ahead of his time for only now do we hear from modern quantum physicists that underlying all reality there appears to be connection. This unity is woven into the very fabric and structure of our Universe. Taube proposes that, “all things are made of the same stuff, differently mixed, bound by one force, stirred by one energy.” (2001) Henry David Thoreau refers to “nature’s vitality and unity.” (1854) In China, the Cosmic concept of the Tao is assuredly a concept of unity. Carl Sagan wrote of the Universe’s natural unity, and physicist Geoffrey Chew referred to Nature as a web that connects and unifies. Ralph Waldo Emerson hearalded, “the unity of nature – the unity of variety – which meets everywhere,” and that “each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.” (ed. Ericson, 2003) I postulate from the Big Bang of 13,700,000,000 years ago, there has been a unity throughout the Universe’s natural world.  I suggest a worldview narrative only works when it develops, stresses, and lays out the naturalistic and universal connections and a unity that exist throughout the natural world. This solidification includes a unity of life where there exists an interpenetration that extends from the inanimate …