Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

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CAN EARLY UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION BE PART OF A SCIENTIFIC THEORY

As always, a theory should explain what we see and be open to testing.

EXPLANATIONS:

Before Darwin, somebody might have asked why animals have two eyes. Why not one or three? After Darwin, we understand how two eyes developed gradually. It's simply because those animals overcame the one-eyed creatures, and three eyes didn't add much benefit (unless one eye was in the back of the head of a particularly paranoid animal). In the same way, universal evolution can explain a puzzle hanging around scientific circles for a hundred years: "Why do protons, electrons, and quarks have their particular weights and charges?" After millions of different trials, these particles working together were more efficient in their use of energy than the others. Natural selection (elimination) whittled down the choices by trial and error.

Evenly distributed galaxies in all directions indicate they all came out of one pure point, one of the arguments for a Big Bang. However, scattered submatter appearing randomly does the same thing, and the process also explains the local clumps which expansion from a single, pure point does not.

In 2007, astronomers at the University of Minnesota discovered a blank spot, one billion light-years across, in the universe. Radio telescopes find no signal or any familiar background radiation, nothing at all. We've seen other "empty" places like this in the universe but none this big.

This discovery hurts the theories in Chapter Seven, Nine, and Eleven. The Big Bang predicts the universe should be more evenly spread than it is, but so does Kapp's theory, with matter coming into existence randomly everywhere.

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Sections

CAN SCIENCE DEAL WITH SPIRIT

SCIENCE STUDYING SPIRIT

MEASURING SPIRITUALITY

SEPARATING HEREDITY/CULTURE

GENES NEED NARROWING DOWN

FINDING AND TESTING THE GENE

EXAMPLE OF STUDYING SPIRIT

NOTHING DOES NOT EXIST

DOES EVERYTHING EVOLVE

ASSUMPTIONS

BEGINNING UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION

FROM "NOTHING" TO SOMETHING

FROM SOMETHING TO MATTER

EARLY UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION

FROM MATTER TO EARTH

FROM EARTH TO LIFE

FROM LIFE TO US

FROM US TO SUPERHUMAN












EVIDENCE ON EARTH

EVIDENCE FROM SPACE

FROM SUPERHUMAN TO GOD(S)

THEORY: MORE THAN EVERYTHING

IS THIS A GOOD THEORY

FINAL THOUGHTS

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