I have not long finished listening to a podcast from The Liturgists (see the link on the left) No. 22. On this comment and discussion is made on ghosts but most of all there is discussion on resurrection and Science Mike as he is affectionately called states this which grew on me. A few years ago I would have not even entertained this thought but my mind is changing or has changed on the evolution ‘thing’. So here is a transcript of what he says about resurrection in regards to how this planet came about:
“In the beginning there was a rapid expansion of a singularity. 380 thousand years later there was light and when there was light there was hydrogen and there was helium. And there were stable fundamental forces of physics they worked together to birth the first stars. Those stars lived for hundreds of millions of years before they died and exploded and spread their essence across the sky into clouds of heavier dust that existed before.
The forces of physics worked together once again to craft new stars now tightly packed into the first galaxies. And the cycle repeated that cycle had to happen several times before we could have planets. Planets could only exist because a few generations of stars died and were reborn and it was from that process that this planet that we live on was allowed to exist.
This planet we live on is covered with a film of life unlike any we’ve seen in the universe as far as we know today. Its unique. That life is fed by a process where carbon from the air; minerals in the soil are attached together with the energy of photons through photosynthesis so everything on this planet lives by the constant sacrifice and dieing of the nearest star“