A new nontheistic Creation Story

Part I: The Universe and Earth

In the beginning was the Zero Point Field.

In the beginning was this super-fluid, super-dense, nonlocal, unbounded, undivided, and inherently unified matrix that we call the Zero Point Field.

And the Field began to generate, form, organize, influence, guide, and structure a natural universe. 

And in the natural universe’s first millisecond – nearly 14 billion years ago – the Field generated three dimensions of space and one dimension of time.  

Within this space-time, a dense, smooth, uniform, intense, super-hot, and plasma-like sphere of waves began expanding.  And quickly, the universe became millions of miles wide.  

In this sphere, there emerged from the Field quarks and other wave-particles.  And some of these quarks and other wave-particles formed into neutrons and protons and then “mind-like” and “sociable” electrons that tune into and feel the presence of the Field and act together as a whole.

When the universe was 100,000 years old and 10 million light-years wide, a microwave background radiation was emitted.  And the universe became a “sea” of radiation which we can visualize as a dense fog.

When the universe was 200,000 years old, density and temperature fell enough that some particles began to decouple from the radiation field.

Next, there came atoms – one-billionth of an inch across. 

By attracting and binding together one electron and one proton around a neutron, wave-carrying particles also carrying a strong or weak nuclear force began forming hydrogen atoms – the primal atomic matter.

At first, there were only hydrogen atoms.  Then hydrogen differentiated into heavier atoms, and other atoms proliferated.

Next, atoms clumped together into molecules – with quadrillions of atoms or trillions of molecules forming each speck of matter. 

The universe was now a smooth vast glow of gas, getting clumpier as it expanded.

Electrons began moving from atom to atom, generating electric waves, and most of the electric waves generated a magnetic wave.  And electromagnetism has enabled matter – grouped charges of energy and information in the Field – to resist acceleration, slow down, condense, gather mass, and gain substance.  Matter in the Field generated the e-m after-effect of gravity. 

Then, 200 million years after the Beginning, the first stars were born.  And the first starlight lit up the universe.

Condensed by gravity, ignited by fusion, a vast cloud of gas has coalesced into quadrillions of stars.  Each star has radiated energy as e-m wave-particles – kinetic energy as heat and radiant energy as light.

Next, extra gravitational attraction slowed, rotated, and collapsed gas into densities of matter and energy we call galaxies.  By one billion years after the Beginning, there were galaxies.  In time, there emerged today’s 100 billion galaxies.

And for quite some time, our universe has been expanding by five percent to ten percent each one billion years.

Around stars, beginning as early as one billion years after the Beginning, there emerged planets.  In time, there developed billions of planets – maybe trillions of planets or even quadrillions of planets.

Our galaxy, which we call the Milky Way, gave rise to 200 billion stars. 

One of these stars, formed five billion years ago out of a cloud of rotating gas, we call our sun.

Eight and a half planets formed out of the clumps of dust and gas closest to our sun – and each planet took up orbit around the sun.

And 4.6 billion years ago, there formed the third planet out from our sun – 93 million miles out – our planet Earth. 

Which was soon accompanied by an orbiting moon.

Inside, the Earth’s inner core of nickel and iron has burnt at from 4,000 to 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  In the middle, the mantle burns at from 1,600 to 4,000 degrees.

From the mantle flows up thick, moist molten lava that cools and solidifies as land.  Plates of rock in the Earth’s crust are from five to 20 or more miles thick.  All over the Earth, floating plates have crashed to form mountains and hills, and weathered rocks have broken down into soil.

Around 4.4 billion years ago, Earth’s atmosphere began to form.  Water falling from the atmosphere formed rivers, streams, seas, lakes, ponds, and oceans.

From the beginning, all nonliving matter – every quark and wave-particle, ever particle, every neutron and proton and electron, every atom, every molecule, every gas, every planet, every star, and every galaxy – has been crystallized Field energy and information.  All matter is crystallized zero-point energy and zero-point information. 

With an interplay of evolving habits and creativity, the universe has always been open to new forms arising from waves in the Field.  Even on the physical and chemical levels, nature has been conscious and creative – incessantly growing toward ever-more complex competence.

The Field – this essential fullness that is empty of objects – has remained the natural universe’s ceaseless background and its subtle and inclusive primary organizing reality.  The Field has remained the cosmos’s exquisite domain of deep natural potential, meaning, and coherence.

Each physical entity can collectively sense the Field, interact with the Field, and translate Field energy and information into movement.  Each physical entity has proto-awareness and prehension. 

But it is in the next step – the next leap – that we truly see consciousness at work.  For our planet Earth gave rise to the miraculous phenomenon we call life.