Gatherings, Sayings, Songs, & “Stars” (Essay #38, at 6-7-25) Participants in Nature’s Practice of Continuing Creation will want to assemble and should assemble. —  We can ...

“Primal Reverence” — Excerpts from a Sermon written & presented by The Reverend Kendyl R. Gibbons “Reverence is an organic human experience that requires no supernatural e...

Reproductive “fruiting bodies” formed by a Slime Bacteria (Myxococcus xanthus) The Rise of Multicellular Organisms                   (Essay #16, at 6-24-25) Note: In this Essay, w...

Artist’s Rendition of String Theory’s “Calabi-Yau Manifold “    Mysteries of Modern Physics (Essay #17, at 6-24-25) Note: In this Essay, we used Wikipedia and Perlexity.a...

To personify Nature, the best choice is an artist’s rendition of Mother Nature, or “Gaia” Abiogenesis: Evolution of First Life on Earth (Essay #14, at 6-23-25)  This is the third of...

Where Life Began: ‘Warm Pools?’  ‘Black Smokers?’ (Essay #15, at 6-23-25)               This is also the fourth of four (#12 to #15) interrelated Essays on Earth’s g...

Is Our Path A “Spiritual” Path?         Photo above: This close-up of broccoli florets illustrates the spiral growing pattern seen throughout Nature. Why the spiral? See “Fibonac...

      Illustration: Chemical Lipid molecules can join to form organic cell-wall enclosures… and also form inorganic capsules outside of living organisms! Chemical Precursors to Life on Earth ...

Photo: The close-up of broccoli florets illustrates the spiral growing pattern seen throughout Nature. Why the spiral?  See our Essay, “Mathematics and Continuing Creation.”    Is Our P...

This Overview of the Book of Continuing Creation, 27 pages long, captures most of the main ideas in this collection of Essays. It addresses the central role of Nature, processes of Complexity, Emerge...

A short Introduction to the Book of Continuing Creation: The Growing>Organizing>Direction of the Cosmos.

Table of Contents For… Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation: Finding Life’s Purpose & Meaning — In Nature, Science, & History             — by J.X. Mason ...

This short one-page chapter provides tips on how to read Book of Continuing Creation. Chapters do not need to be read in order; each chapter can be read as an independent essay. Throughout the Book,...

Is the Book of Continuing Creation For You? If you can agree with at least 3 of the fifty very short statements in this Essay, then this Book is something you should read. Here are a few of those stat...

"If there is no difference, there is no information. If everything is black, “Black” has no meaning. In computer machine language there is no information until there is at least one “1” in a...

Above Photo:  An Old Tree with Powerful Roots   The full title of this book of Essays is: Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation: Finding Life’s Purpose & Meaning in Nature, Scienc...

Is mathematics the "language of God?" Or, as we will ask in this Book, "Is mathematics the language of G>O>D>?" We will discuss that at length, but one thing is certain:  knowing just a few ...

Complex Systems are the full flowering of Continuing Creation here on Earth. Complex systems include crystalizing minerals, simmering water, tornadoes, a one-celled bacterium, bird flocks in flight, h...

Photo:  The Sun, Air, Earth, and a “Tree of Life” Growing Among Them The Processes of Evolution in Biology, Culture, & Technology “The fundamental process of Nature’s Cont...

This Essay answers common challenges posed by evolution's opponents. These include: "The eagle's eye is so complex, it must have been designed by a Creator." "How can wondrous creatures come about ...

Image: Nucleotides join to make the polymers, Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) & Ribonucleic acid (RNA). These two biomolecules are essential for all lifeforms on Earth. The Organic Molecules & Pr...

Crustaceans and fish cluster around the black holes of deep-sea vents OUTDATED   OUTDATED    OUTDATED !!  See the correct version, dated 3-21-25 Where Life Began:  ‘Warm Pools’?  &#...

Deism, Process Theology, Stoicism, Freemasonry, Positivism, Secular Humanism, Existentialism, Skepticism, Pragmatism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism: These are the theologies and philosophies tha...

An Imagined portrait of Lao Tzu (or Laozi), the founder of Taoism  Evaluating Taoism & Zen “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observ...

Photo: The Hindu God Shiva performs his “Dance of Creation, Destruction, & Creation Anew” Evaluating Hinduism “All the world’s major religions contain both factual errors a...

Photo: An Indian Elephant and Three Buddhist Monks Walk Together Evaluating Buddhism     “All the world’s major religions contain both factual errors and poetic wisdom.   And so do th...

This Essay looks at the religion that Jesus taught while he was alive, as revealed by the Gospels and many decades of scholarship. (A later Essay looks at the supernatural religion that was created ...

Above — Paul of Tarsus, Christianity’s Apostle Paul  Early Christianity: From Jesus’ Death to 312 C.E.     All the world’s major religions contain both factual errors and p...

  The Kaaba (“Cube”), Islam’s Holiest Site, the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia Evaluating Islam        “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.  Praise ...

Above — Notre Dame de Paris (“Our Lady of Paris”) Cathedral. Begun in 1163, largely completed in 1260. The roof was lost to a fire in 2019. Reconstruction was completed in late 2024....

Photo above:  The Branch Davidians’ “Mount Carmel Center” compound near Waco, Texas, burns during an attack by FBI Agents on 2-28-93. Smaller Religions & Modern Cults (Essay #26...

The Unfolding Rose is a Symbol of Love… … and also, a Symbol of Nature’s Continuing Creation Is “God” Love?  Is “Creating” Love?        (Essay #27, at 7-...

Jesus exhorts his followers to "Sell all your possessions and give to the poor" (Matthew 19:21), but this doctrine of "Radical Sharing" is highly impractical. If all the world's wealth were evenly di...

“Esprit de Coeur” — Love Between Teammates at NASA. Love’s Role in Our Lives & Practice             (Essay #29, at 7-4-25) Summarizing This Essay in Five Sentences: ...

The main question of this Chapter is, “How can God be completely good when suffering and evil exist in the world?” Humans do not suffer because Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. ...

Every religion and every spiritual path provides a way for followers to deal with death – the death of loved ones, and our own eventual deaths. While the Old Religions deal with Death by creating my...

Technology will change the minds and bodies of human beings over the next half-century. These technological avenues include treatment of disease, surgical repairs, artificial organs and appliances, an...

This chapter lists the moral precepts of the Path of Continuing Creation. Since humanity’s traditional moral laws (such as “Do not murder another human being”) are hard-won products of our biol...

This Essay tells how people can lead Fulfilled and Happy lives by following the Spiritual Path of G>O>D>: The Growing> Organizing> Direction> of the Cosmos. Every year, popular new s...

This chapter lists the moral precepts of the Path of Continuing Creation. Since humanity’s traditional moral laws (such as “Do not murder another human being”) are hard-won products of our biol...

This is an important Essay in the Book of Continuing Creation, because our Spiritual Path is action-oriented; and Virtue means pointing our actions along the same creative and constructive trajectory ...

“Meditation is paying sustained, unmixed attention to one thing at a time.” — Simone Weil. > “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” — Anonymous > “Be here now.  ...

“4,000 Years of Christmas…”        … and… “The Night Before Christmas…”       Presented by Laura Emerson. Adapted from “4000 Years of Chri...