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Science and religion have historically either politely ignored the other or denied the reality of the other. Modern society has further entered into the separation of the two by dividing the phenomena of the world as belonging only within one of the two institutions or philosophies. It seems as if the difference between religion and science is epitomized by the disagreement over the creation of the world and yet it is this that can demonstrate the original union of science and religion.  As will be shown, there are three required basic elements in describing the creation whether from the ancient viewpoint, modern religion or modern science. The first is the need for a starting position and stimulus or creator. The second is the requirement for a law that describes and controls the process of creation. The third is a source of matter and/or energy. One interesting method of approaching the question of creation will be to first review a very ancient but also wide spread concept of the creation that very possibly planted seeds that were later used by both science and religion. The almost universal view was that the celestial objects in the sky were assumed to control what happened on earth and when their powers could be understood, then the meaning and nature of life could be found. The two chief and equal ruling celestial bodies were the sun and moon. They were both observed to be of the same size as made obvious during solar eclipses. The sun was assumed to be only a flame without solidity while the moon was solid and cold. One explanation for the long burning sun was that it was fueled by the moon just as dropping flames are fueled by the pitch in a firebrand. The sun could then obtain fuel from the moon during the night and/or during an eclipse when the moon was seen to cover the flame. The radiance of the sun and its position in the sky gave the light of day as well as the seasons. The sun stimulated and regulated the growth of vegetation in spring while the earth furnished the nutrient similar to the moon as it nurtured the flame of the sun. The sun was perceived, therefore, as the controller of growth and furnished a law that nature had to obey. Since the sun was without substance, it could only control the earth by its law that would stimulate direct and limit any growth on the face of the earth. The law was manifested in turn by the radiance and heat of the sun. The moon on the other hand was without radiance, yet had a hidden power as exemplified by controlling the menses of women, the tides, and the flow of water in general. This power was defined as being physical in contrast to the sun’s power that was hidden behind the physical growth and changes.  The moon was credited with furnishing the soil and rocks of the earth as well as supplying the nutrient or energy believed to be given to growing plants. In brief, the sun became recognized as the source of law or control while the moon became the source of matter and energy. The sun as lawgiver was declared to masculine, while the moon as nurturing was considered to be feminine. There was one more very necessary element in creation and that was the source of the sun/moon that was first created or appeared. This source can be called the One, since it obviously must contain both the sun and moon principles. The One must therefore have been the basis for both the Law of the universe as well as the Energy.  The One is many times credited with naming or describing the resulting creations and processes that appeared on earth. This naming process gradually became forgotten and instead, the objects and interactions were considered to have the Law or physical descriptions ingrained within them.  These ingrained characteristics or descriptions of what an object or process was to be have been called proclivities, propensities or dispositions.  For instance a falling object has a propensity to fall or it had an inner power within itself that forced the object to move toward the earth. The earlier concept was probably that the One created the process of attraction and made it a part of Law that the sun enforced. In other words, an object fell toward earth because of Law or the sun principle and the Law was written or created by the One. This was further changed with the invention of the concept of a ‘field’. Rather than having the remote sun cause the object to fall or because of a source of power within the object, a field could be blamed to cause the fall. Hence, science explains that an object falls because of the existence of a field of gravity.  Religions described this control by Law as stating that the One controlled every motion or activity on earth. Since this, no doubt, seemed too burdensome on the One or Law, the control was shifted to within the objects undergoing change. One modification of this concept was that the sun or One gave the powers to change to individuals so that they could act in their own behalf. This power could be recognized by the inner heat (of the sun) associated with the increase in vital energy and activity as will be discussed. The concept of the One, sun and moon does not however, explain life and its gradations from simple one celled amoebae up to the complex rulers or innovators in the human society. Life was different from the moon or inert solid material in that it grew and could change with time to increase its advantage of growth. Life was characterized by increasing its complexity and inner energy while the surrounding inert world was losing its complexity and energy to change as it wore away to a uniform residue. Life was characterized with breathing with the lower life forms only slowly breathing, perhaps only with water vapor, while the higher life forms had increased breathing.  The ancients noted the association of the inner creative sun and its associated heat with the rapid increase in breathing. Life, like the sun, was assumed to derive its basic energy from the inert moon matter or the soil. In the case of humans another level of change was involved as plants took the energy from the earth and then changed it to a higher form of energy for human usage. Life could therefore be compared to the sun, but at a higher realm of existence in that it was free to move and create. This higher realm was assumed to be due to the higher presence or power of the One that first created the sun. Individuals could therefore, because of the inner power, add to the Law of the sun and become more like the One. The ruler or king of the land could therefore be assumed to have more of the presence of the One or the inner creative controlling power than did the laborer in the field. With the above considerations, it is possible to construct a sequence of events that would be acceptable to both modern science and ancient religion allowing a difference in naming the various forces such Brahmin for the One or Holy Spirit for the inner sun power of man.  In the beginning was the One whose origin and nature are unknown. Out of the One came forth the primordial Law and Energy (the sun and moon,     male and female attributes, God and his/her/its Power or Will, etc.) Law contained the rules for what Energy could do or become and was the controlling intelligence of the universe permeating the entire universe and all that resided therein. Primordial Energy likewise permeated all of the universe. Law finally required Energy to concentrate into one point for interaction. (Gravitational field of science or the Will of God). The One then triggered the conversion of Energy into matter under Law resulting in a tumultuous explosion (the Big Bang) or the creation of the earth and heavenly bodies. Law (the law of physics, or "and God said, 'Let…'") determined and regulated how energy would form the many forms of matter and also regulated their motions and continued transformations. When all of the required material transformations defined by Law had materialized, the One again created a separate form of itself containing a limited amount of both Law and Energy that became Life. The new Law impressed into Life was able to oppose universal Law in one very important process. Life was able to counter the gradual loss of available Energy or to decrease entropy. Life was able to force matter to take on a new form and become more complex so that it could seek more energy and expand and evolve. Life flourished on the formed planet as Energy took on new material forms. The One again formed another variation in the inner Law of humans. The One gave the human form the capability to add to the original Law, if original Law was not altered. Humans became individuals able to choose their own actions. Humans ultimately divided into two different types of individuals under control of the One. One type of humans learned to add to Law and contributed to the resulting large changes in the planet and themselves and were known as the perfected or righteous The other type did not add to Law and became subject to the law of the righteous and old Law and became known as the un-awakened or the sinners even as they found an increased value in life under the righteous.

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