Science, God, Higher Beings & The Resurrection - Jean-Philippe Marceau

Jean-Philippe Marceau is a writer and Christian symbolic thinker.

Ancient thinkers were often wise to non-material higher-level beings like angels. However, modern day materialism has made us myopic to such patterns. How should we understand angels and higher beings in our modern world?

In this podcast, learn how modern science is embracing non-materialist ideas, how ancients thought about angels in terms of higher-level patterns like cities or societies, why physical laws like E=mc2 are angels if such patterns are agentic, why Christ's incarnation helps bridge the material world with higher-level patterns, evolution's compatibility with Christianity, and more...

Timestamps:

00:00 Modern Science Vs. Christianity
02:01 Why Scientists Aren't Always Materialists
04:07 Successes and Failures of Materialism
05:19 Higher Level Entities
07:26 AI, Facebook and other Higher Beings
09:30 How We Participate in Higher Beings
11:21 What are Angels and Spirits?
12:18 The "Angel" of Patterns such as E=mc2
14:27 We know nothing of the real nature of physical entities
15:30 The Angels of Virtues and Other Patterns
18:00 Modernity Ignoring Higher Level Patterns
20:59 Being Manipulated by Social Media
24:30 Modern Meaning Crisis and Higher Level Agencies
30:29 Surviving in a world with Higher Patterns
33:05 How Higher Patterns Lead To God
33:56 Why Can Humans Interact with Mathematical Entities?
39:05 The Incarnation is the Best Scientific Theory of Reality
41:50 Why Christ's Incarnation Makes Science Possible
44:42 Why Miracles Show us the Structure of Reality
46:55 The Resurrection and Its Implications for Creation
48:20 Resurrection of the whole of creation in Christ
51:08 Why did God create the world?
54:20 How we bring up animals and lower level patterns
56:54 Evolution and Its Compatibility with Christianity

Find JP Marceau:

Symbolic World articles: https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/team...
YouTube channel:    / @j.p.marceau5146  

New book: https://store.thesymbolicworld.com/pr...

Our previous Conversation:    • Post-Materialist Metaphysics, Causality an...  

Find me:

Substack: https://substack.com/@jackroycroftsherry (where I'll be writing on topics related to this podcast soon...)