INTRODUCTION

TO THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING THE GENESIS

FIRST PART

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED...

HISTORY OF THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

1. To begin with, and since you should always choose a good starting point, I will say that this study on the History of the Creation of the Universe (Heaven and Earth) has its origin in the need to open the Faith to the scientific principles of Nature. I do not intend to base the Faith on such principles; Faith has been and is founded on the supernatural principles of which the Gospels are its Eternal Treatise.

Being Incarnation and Resurrection the two columns of the Temple of Faith, at the time of questions about the Origin of the Universe the only explanation that our parents could give us, and we ourselves could to our children is the Story of the Creation of the Universe according to Genesis. That is, "God created the Heavens and the Earth"... And the rest, the "how" and the "when" are aspects of Creative Activity that we can know or not know, but that do not add or take anything away from Faith.

The work I have set in this Introduction is to overcome the first of the two unknowns: "the How". For, although Faith is invincible, no one can deny that Faith without Intelligence is corruptible, as has been well demonstrated over the centuries. To ignorance we must, then, refer all the errors of Christianity.

2. Therefore, in this Introduction I will go straight to the Truth; and the truth is this: the Universe, this structure of astrophysical engineering within whose walls our Solar System navigates; this Universe, the Heavens, has been created by the God of Genesis. On the contrary, the alleged circumstantial fact of having produced this final set of breathtaking beauty that we call "the Universe" from a chaotic series of elements did not produce scientific materialism conflict of any kind to the extent that Science denied the existence of a Natural Aesthetic.

This subject of the Aesthetics of the Heavens and its stimulating function of Intelligence is a matter that scientific atheism declared to be the result of a series of coincidences, all originating in Chaos. About the how is it possible that Chaos produces Heavens of such breathtaking beauty, this is a point they refused to answer. Or they responded with the contempt that a fool's question deserves. Not surprisingly, the father of Ethology and Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz related Knowledge and Behavior in his classic equation: "Truth = Survival; Falsity = Destruction."

3. The examples that the wise Konrad Lorenz gave us before our eyes are infinite, but in sum they come to unify in a universal conclusion; this: the Behavior of every living being is the fruit of its true Knowledge about Nature; information you acquire through your senses on the one hand; and their phylogenetic inheritance from the other; in such a way that by the nature of the Living Behavior of a species we can define the nature of Knowledge that serves as the basis for moving in space and time.

That is, if we provide an individual with false information about the scenario in which he moves, the consequence will be to lurch in the first instance, and his destruction will be the end of his path.

Example: If we transfer false information to an individual traveling with his vehicle about his proximity to a gap in his route, which as he approaches he must prepare to save it, giving more space to his approach, when the truth is that the distance is less, the validation of this falsehood will bring ruin.

In animals it is the senses, whatever they may be, that collect the information as the movement occurs. In the intelligent being, human case, information comes from communication, and therefore the individual is exposed to an external factual manipulation, which, directing his behavior, may or may not seek its destruction.

Now, when it is the whole species, the entire human race in this case, that moves on a self-destructive route, logically we must speak of an intellectual pathology that, affecting all men, must necessarily drag them all into the abyss of extinction. And since Cosmology refers to the Structure of Nature, origin of all life on Earth, the Self-destructive Global Behavior that the Human Race lives must be sought in a Pathology of the Intellect to intellectually recreate the nature of the world in which Man lives and exists.

It was on this basis that God foretold Adam's world of its destruction. Once established in a false reality, the product of a fictitious Knowledge about the relationship between the Creator and his Creation, and not admitting any correction in his relationship with the Universe and his Creator, the dynamics itself would lead him back to dust. In other words, the Future of Human Life in the Universe was thereafter limited to a specific space of time. His passage through the History of Creation would be a movement of the wind in the Cosmos; When the wind ceased Man would return to his animal origin, and finally his World would fall into the cemetery where so many others lie.

The dynamic that we observe, since Man felt entitled to alienate himself from the Freedom of his Creator, and direct his Existence in Time according to his own freedom, fulfills to the letter the Divine Observation. Walking from war to war we have esrito in the History of the Earth our own Fratricidal Chronicle, suicidal, self-destructive, that following this path could not but lead us to the Apotheosis of the Apocalyptic Thermonuclear Atomic War, for some a Gesta for others a Tragedy. For a God who was not involved in our Existence the Fall of another World in the Graveyard of the Worlds, from whose Dust we were created.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most appropriate Divine Discourse to the case. Before us we have, on the one hand, the Phoenix, which rises from its ashes by the Power of the Divine Creator, who created us from the cosmic Dust by reason of his boundless Intelligence of the Science Tree of the Creation of Universes and Worlds, by whose Power he elevates Life in the Universe from animal nature to Life in his Image and Likeness, to enjoy Eternal Life; and on the other hand we have before us the power of choice: to rise to the natural condition of a son of God, or to let ourselves fall from animal nature into the Dust.

Freedom comes with the Creation of life in the image and likeness of the Divine Creator. What God tells us in the Old Testament is that Man chose Death over eternal Life. What God tells us in the New Testament is that that Election was the product of a manipulation of his intelligence, to which a being foreign to Man supplied a false Knowledge about the meaning of living existence in the image and likeness of a son of God. The meaning of living this Image and Likeness became Man. ECCE HOMO; Christ Jesus is the Man whom God begot in Animal Matter to be His son. The other Model, the satanic one, is an abomination in the eyes of our Creator. Deceived, the Man fell. But redeemed, he rises like a phoenix to live eternal life in the image and likeness of Christ Jesus, Son of God, hence the Apostle said: Christ, our life.

Indeed, whoever does not want to live eternal life is free to do so, and knowing that his choice is Death, his existence is a declaration of war on the Life that is in us. Hence the Tragedy, choosing Satan as a Model of existence is a Gesta: The Atomic Destruction of the entire Human Race, defeating God, bringing the Creator of the Cosmos to its knees... Satan's word to his faithful is firm: God created the world, I destroy what God created; I am God.

4. But returning to the metaphysical subject, the fact is that Ethics is not involved in Genetics either, and yet its manifestation occurs at all known historical levels. So that necessity being innate, Knowledge is part of our genetic structure. Or what is the same, we would not react to the Aesthetics of the Universe if our genetic structure were not prepared to respond to the sparks that the Heavens make jump in our brain. Thus, denying the relationship: Universal Nature-Aesthetic Intelligence, what scientific materialism did, and continues to do, is to steer the train of creationist cosmological research to a dead end.

Against this attempt, it must be said that the history of civilizations, from their earliest days, keeps a record of the responses of different cultures to this natural stimulus (Universal Nature-Aesthetic Intelligence) with respect to which the Human Race, being, as it was in its Ontological Childhood, had no capacity for manipulation or domination. Or what is the same, the human being reacts to the Beauty of the Universe with the naturalness of the trees to the arrival of spring and the winds to winter.

Being admiration the mother of Philosophical Thought, the experience of Science, and living of Wisdom, it is Nature itself that carries in its Universal Structure the imprint of the Intelligence of its Creator: the effect on Life can be none other than an Intelligent Creature "in the image and likeness of its Creator".

5. As for the Creation of Intelligent Life on the face of the Earth, at the time the human being in his Ontological Childhood, (speaking of Homo Sapiens Adanensis), the response of Man to the stimulus of the Universe in his Brain was the Word. That is, if in the fact of admiration Science has its Past, that same fact revolutionized the Future of Man much earlier by opening its mouth to articulate its First Word. The First Word, the admiring word par excellence, what else could it be but "God!"

In fact, the biblical account of the Creation of the Universe has its origin in the satisfaction of that stimulus that awakened in Man the search for Knowledge of the Origin of all things. Within these responses that the different nations of Antiquity gave to the stimulus Celestial Aesthetic-Natural Intelligence, the Biblical Response opened between Moses and his contemporaries a distance as insurmountable as it was impossible for Pharaoh to cross the Red Sea.

6. Indeed, in comparison to Moses' account of the Creation of the Universe, the cosmogonic accounts of the ancient peoples bore the stamp of the historical trauma experienced by their fathers somewhere on the other side of the Flood. Gods, demons, ocean, sky, earth, demigods... All the paranoia of those men were mixed in a mythical chaos from whose bowels nothing good could come out except the justification of the social behavior that was their historical heritage. Which is why in this book I prefer to leave for another time an analysis of the genesis of the responses of Antiquity to the challenge of the cosmos.

Nor will I get lost in the analysis and refutation of modern cosmological theories, for, although under a different guise, the answers of the Atomic Age to the old classical questions about the Origin and Structure of the Universe had their roots in the same psychological attitude that dragged ancient man into the Age of myths and legends. In time, when the occasion arises, I will be crumbling their skeletons until the nature of their hypotheses is exposed.

This New Cosmology not being the development of an earlier hypothesis, and not being indebted to any of them, the historical theory that sets this book in motion does not have to follow the same method of recording and refuting all the hypotheses that from the days of the Classical World to the Atomic Age have tried to satisfy the need for knowledge of the human being. And considering that freedom of expression is linked to freedom of thought, to create its own method, I have preferred to follow as a line of action the platform that Moses traces in Genesis.

7. From the study of the History of Science in general, and of Astronomy in particular, it is seen in what way and extent Ignorance was the lot that left in inheritance to the Human Race by the generation of the mythical forgers of the first city-states built, whose golden age was reached when "the crown came down from heaven", and the cities were erected in the body of the First King of the earth, that Adam, who, defying the Law and despising Peace as long as the road to the civilization of the fullness of the nations of the human race, made Holy War his iron law; inheritance that led everyone to Death. Destruction where the delicate relationship between Knowledge and Behavior is better appreciated than anywhere else.

A "false" information about the Identity and Personality of the Creator, assumed to be true, triggered the first world civil war, staged in the fratricide Cain versus Abel; information which, had it not been assumed, Man having undertaken a direct Path to Universal Civilization, would have saved the Human Race so much misfortune. But since we are not in this little book to amend the plan to the historians of Antiquity, it is good that we park for now the theme of the Fall in the light of the historical sciences, and we will have time, when God disposes it, to travel to the Seventh Millennium BC and recreate, in the light of the evidence, the World before the Fall of that first kingdom, whose king received the crown "that came down from Heaven", Adam for us, "Alulim" for the heirs of that lost world ... for an apple!

8. Continuing with the subject, in an introductory way, and although it seems that a brief general review does not come to mind, the entry of Moses into History revolutionized the structure of the Future of Humanity for many reasons. He was the first legislator to abolish human sacrifice.

Once purged by Jesus Christ of the penalties related to biblical crime, the Mosaic Code of Justice remains the basis of our Social Ethics, remaining its "You shall NOT kill, NOT steal, NOT adulterate, NOT bear false witness"... the pillars on which the Palace of Justice maintains its basic structure. Obviously the world remains as it is depending on the battle to the death that the seed of Cain has been waging against Christ.

From the origins of the World that emerged from the Fall, the main goal of kingdoms and empires, tyrants and dictators was not, nor is it any other, than to legalize Theft, Adultery, Crime, False Testimony, Sex against nature, etc. The History of this struggle between the law of Nature, written by God the Creator in the hearts of all the first families of the Earth, and the law of Crime, whose goal was, and is, the legalization of this Transgression (in the name of State, of Castes, of Democracy, of God even), had and has as its main lines to lead the nations to the Acceptance of War as way of life.

9. In many ways, then, Moses' Revolution continues to affect us three and a half thousand years after his birth. Without in any way contradicting our Dogmatics on the Trinity, its monotheism remains the Rock on which Christ raised his Church.

From the opposition between that Old force stuck in its inertia, which refused to take the leap forward, and the New that demanded birth, arose the great conflict that, with its explosion, returned to Sacred Scripture the revolutionary nature it had in its origins, and which it never renounced. Thanks to Jesus Christ, even at the price of being considered a "traitor to his homeland" for wanting to turn Sacred Scripture into the universal patrimony of Humanity, Classical Natural Intelligence found the door open to the study of Creation. More importantly, Jesus Christ gave the Bible a people who would protect it from the coming Fall of the Roman Empire.

10. The Jewish people, it is true, had carried Holy Scripture against the wind of the ages. But he had done it as one who carries a burden from which one cannot free oneself. His periods of idolatry, his times of corruption, so common in his history, were nothing more than that, the manifestation of that impossibility to remove that burden from his back.

Moses signed a Contract between God and the Hebrew People by which Israel would never be destroyed, but which, by binding both parties, and being the Eye of God everywhere, was to create, and created, in the consciousness of the Jewish people the need not to feel watched in such a constant and omnipresent way. The effect of that need for deliverance was those periods of idolatry and corruption of which the Bible is so spare.

(It was this relationship of a sadomasochistic nature, because God knew that it was impossible for man not to sin, and man knew that it was impossible for God not to punish, that led the Jewish people to the final situation that through their confrontation with the priestly powers of Jerusalem Jesus Christ discovered to us.)

After a millennium and a half studying Sacred Scripture, living it in its flesh, I would say, such was the model of relationship between God, the Universe and Man that Jerusalem and its children were formed. Its liturgical rites, its legislative prescriptions, the Jewish way of life in general, with exceptions, kept the hands of the rest of the world away from Holy Scripture, and those of the Jewish people, with rare exceptions, far from the books of the Golden Age of Philosophy and the Classical Sciences. This situation, this insurmountable psychohistorical wall in both directions, Jesus Christ set out to tear it down. And he threw him out. Necessity was vital. Depositories of Holy Scripture, the Jews could not ignore that Universal History was still evolving, and around them there was another people in whom God had deposited another type of "sacred scripture." If Sacred Scripture was the fruit of God's love for Man, the fruit of Man's love of Wisdom would be Philosophy, the mother of Science.

11. Long was the path of Science for centuries. How could it be otherwise. For since Man was created to be a participant in creative Omniscience, human intelligence, a living reflection of Divine Intelligence, could not and cannot fail to aspire to live its growth within the omniscient dimension natural to the Source of its existence.

The direct and evil consequence that the Fall bequeathed to all the families of the world was this disconnection; so that having man "in himself the power of being" he found, after the Fall, with the impossibility of passing from "saying" to "fact", what in Philosophy is called: passing from "potency" to "act". This natural impossibility was translated into mythologies and cosmogonies, one by one, and all together, promoters of the Crime against a Nature that carrying in its bosom the Divine law was powerless to reconnect the Human Creature with its Creator.

Ignorance was the lot of the human race (on whose nature we will enter in due course, but not here, ready as this book is to remain exclusively in the field of the knowledge of God as Creator of the Heavens and the Earth)... Ignorance against which Philosophical Thought was raised, and, although human intelligence was enslaved to the law of animal reason, by the fact that the human being carries in his bosom the seed of divine intelligence by Creator disposition it would bear fruit.

12. Thus, fifteen hundred years after the Resurrection, the hour of its freedom came to Science. The tutelage that theology had exercised over its body was coming to an end. Only the situation was not the same. You cannot compare the world fifteen hundred years after Moses with Galileo's fifteen hundred years after Jesus Christ. But as far as the end of the tutelage of Theology over Science was concerned, the Hour had come. The hands of the Time clock had been walking towards that Hour. If theologians were scandalized by Galileo, it was not because God had ceased to be the spirit that inspires his creatures the breath of life. I would say it was quite the opposite; it was because theology had tried to monopolize this breath of life and, failing to do so, it was logical to be scandalized by God. But these things had already been predicted.

The real problem at the bottom of the independence of Science was born when from the friction arose that feeling of freedom of those who are freed, finally, from the protection of a mother exaggeratedly, as I would say, Madonna. A growing sensation that, fed by the critique of independent reason towards a church anchored in its medieval behaviors, ended up converting the Modern World to different types of scientific materialism. (Given the intellectual conditioning acquired by Modern Science it would be difficult for the progress of physical knowledge of the Universe to converge towards the encounter of its Creator).

13. Although it sounds like destructive criticism – which it is not – it is a fact that the failure of the Modern Age is written in its legacy to the Atomic Age. Many ideas about possible cosmological models, each the piece of a puzzle that looked wonderful, but that no one could order. The genius of Einstein and his generation had to raise the Number to the condition of the Word, and with its omnivorous power order the Cosmos.

The madman who, according to them, was in the genius led the wise men of the Atomic Age to believe that they were in a relay race and their turn to run had come. With the fidelity of the wise to a lost cause, the geniuses of the first part of the twentieth century jumped on the track that led to the hell of world wars with the joy of the psychopath who believes that everyone is crazy but him. When they realized, when they wanted to stop the train, it was too late, and inertia did the rest.

They jumped off the train, and, like Pilate washing his hands, got out of the way. How can we not involve them in the birth of the monster they fed with the milk of the law of the strongest, and the bread of war as an instrument of progress and evolution! Fed by the doctrine of scientific materialism, the Nazi monster and the Communist monster grew to become the armies of that hell that made the twentieth century the most evil period lived until then by the Human Race.

True, the Fall of the Roman Empire was no less hellish, but the fact that the twentieth century had all the necessary means to prevent the apocalyptic hecatomb, and yet the fact of having seen in the War the only possible means to get out of the Ideological and Economic Crisis that affected all nations equally, transformed the Fall of the Modern World into the greatest Tragedy ever known, both for the number of souls trapped in the apocalyptic hecatomb and for the Hatred and Evil that were released in the World Contests of the Twentieth Century. That is, from the gospel of the strongest the World War was legitimate. It had to start. And it began.

14. Fortunately for us everything that has a beginning has an end, and the greatest of the wars lived by the Human Race also came to an end. Over; but fleeing from the defeat of the Strong, the athletes of Science ran in all directions, and under the motto of every man for himself, they handed over the baton of atomic energy to the two great victorious powers of the conflict. The Cold War came to light. A Cold War that had its origin in God's decision to arm Cain and Abel with the same jaw, in order to stop fratricide through fear of the destruction of both. Wonderful politics of which we now all enjoy its fruit.

Not that the Atomic Age is, or has been, a paradise of agreements, the thought put on the salvation of nations and the redemption of Mother Earth. Not at all! But the technological revolution had to run its course. And, by one of those Wonderful decisions of Providence, the eyes of human Intelligence were opened; They began to penetrate astronomical distances. And, as the universal field was extended to the telescopic eyes of Civilization, that Universe of the Strongest was evaporating, vanishing as does the soap bubble that according to its creators was.

Stunned, with the incredulous eyes of the one who sees his idols teetering on his pedestal, and unable to bear the weight of the earthquake shaking the foundations of the earth, the last generations of the Cold War saw how Einstein's religion and his cosmological doctrine trembled on his altar, and there was nothing his priests could do to prevent his fall. Once again Reality denied, denies and will continue to deny, the ideology of scientific materialism. First he denied his gospel of the strongest; then he denied his doctrine of the necessity of war as a biological instrument of civilization, and now shakes the foundations of the Cosmos according to Science.

15. But rather than get lost in a critique of scientific behavior, I prefer to go straight to highlight the development of civilization as a result of the evolution of human language, a workhorse that has led us to victory over that lack of knowledge of which the Son of God lamented, saying: "If you do not understand the things of the earth, how you are to understand those of Heaven."

It is not an exercise in rhetoric to affirm that the meaning, the objective, the end towards which these past two millennia have walked has been the overcoming of that intellectual defect. Let us remember that God had spoken as a prophet, God had spoken as a lawgiver, God had spoken as king and lord, finally God spoke as Father, but God never spoke to us as the Creative Intelligence of Him who, opening His mouth, said, "Let there be Light."

And yet having claimed that He created the universe within this statement was the promise to do so. Thus, in the lament of the Son of God this promise throbbed in the form of the Future that was to come, that He would have liked to see there and then, but that unfortunately was about to come. And it is that much should grow the intelligence of the Classical Man to be able to understand the laws of the Science of Creation.

The path of barbarism at the dawn of our time would be long and narrow; but that Day would come. History would open his horizon to him, and the Morning Star announcing the arrival of the New Day would shine its light on the Fullness of Nations.

16. Seeing it coming, from a distance in the ages, one of Jesus' Disciples greeted this Day, saying: "The anxious expectation of Creation is waiting for the manifestation of the glory of the freedom of the sons of God." Sons of God who were all the Apostles of Jesus Christ, when this Paul affirmed that "the whole Creation" was waiting for the "Manifestation of the glory of the freedom of the sons of God", in his form, in the intelligent way that St. Peter recognized him, St. Paul prophesied the Birth of this Day when God would speak to us as that Creator of the Universe who recognized Himself at the beginning of His Book. Moreover, the first two steps in this direction had already been taken.

There was Revelation and Science. Although it is true that there was a wall between them, Christianity, as would be seen in the first half of the first millennium, broke it down, and, in the light of its Magisterium, Theology and Science learned to live together, to grow together. Obviously, Civilization would still have to live bitter and critical hours; on their way were the Invasions, the Division of the churches, the battle between Faith and Reason, and, at the end of the two millennia, the World Wars. Only in the end would the spirit of Intelligence enter the picture.

PART TWO

CREATION OF THE FIRMAMENT OF THE HEAVENS