God's Tool Bag oil on linen canvas 58"X58"  $65,000.00

In order to build anything one requires tools. What tools did God use to build the universe? Let us take a peek into his/her tool bag Obviously one needs an unimaginable amount of energy to create the building blocks of matter. The Big Bang, established the relative unit of matter, finiteness and the laws of physics, and within minutes we had hydrogen and helium atoms. God's next tool was nuclear fusion. One could say that nuclear fusion is one of God's favorite tools, via which God created the remaining elements giving us chemistry and then biology and subsequently life. Polarity is another tool that permeates all facets of the underpinnings of creation, and spills into the cognitive realm, primarily in the form of Pain vs pleasure, the building blocks of behavior. Structure Hierarchy and equilibrium are the principles that stabilize the physical and cognitive universe. Without these principles the earth would smash into the sun and the entire universe would not have coalesced in the first place. These principles can help us solve many of our social ills such as income inequality, global warming, police brutality etc...we are good at establishing hierarchies and organizations. we fail miserably when it comes to equilibrium. Love might have been the motivation for the universe in the first place, and is the glue for most positive cognitive interactions and experience. Laughter friendship and generosity (among others) are the sweetener of human experience. The Sphere, the circle and the elliptical are God's primary design elements because I suspect they are closer to the nature of infinity itself. nothing in the macroscopic universe is naturally cubic (some crystals approximate cubes). Inspiration Prayer and Communion are the tools that transitioned us from  physical creatures to cognitive and spiritual beings.

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