To On (that which is) includes things that are alive and things that are not alive.

The not alive things appear to have come from a very small, hot dense concentration of mass.

The alive things appear to have all come from a cell, maybe a bacteria, or maybe blue-green algal cell.

Anyhow there are proceedings of orderly descent down through time from very early things to the things we now see.

Is this order out there?

Or is it just in our minds?

If it’s out there then maybe all that we see points to a higher source of order.

If it’s just in our minds, how come all the Lanthanides that make the fluorescent light have ions with +3 valences? Did my mind somehow arrange that? Or is it simply so?

All that is in heaven and Earth points to God, so faith is the one thing we need not have to affirm that God exists (shines forth — ex means forth, histemi means shines or stands out)

Lucretius claimed that what we can know is atoms and the void.

I think we can know more. The atoms do not just swerve around all higgledy-piggledy.

That’s who biology, chemistry, and physics are possible.

With equations like E = mc^2

That’s a little bang. The Big Bang is bigger.

Life can be traced to a stromatolite. Rocks to a singularity.

The process is orderly.

It is a proceeding, like Leo XIV in his chair being carried by the Cardinals.

My vague, gauzy, tenuous theism is quite common in my set (Anglicans) from which I have not been expelled although the Archbishop of Canterbury could do it. He also did not fire Bishop Sponge or Alan Watts both of whom were ordained, as I have not been.

Dean Sparrow, and his teacher, also a Jesuit, taught me how to think.

So I do that.

It’s what I do.

And advise political persons, and guide the process of invention. And paint illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (a Lucretian, like me).