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One of the questions science has been dwelling on since well the last couple of centuries is the origins of life. Some see this quest as a blatant attack on religion that purports to explain the origins of everything. The two however are not the same thing.
Science freely admits they cannot explain why it all happened just how it all happened and then only to the point just after it all began. Religions however say they explain why it all happened, typically a God decided it was going to be so. This is an alternative to the current religions.
Before I start I will say this, this theory was not imparted to me in a vision; no golden plates were dropped in my lap; no angel visited me in dream; aliens didn't abduct me and I really didn't spend years researching this while torturing tomatoes with electricity. I may on occasions while the idea evolved in my head have been under the influence of alcohol.
I don't claim this is any more valid than any other and frankly don't dogmatically believe it since to presume it is correct and all others are wrong would be the height of arrogance; I did consider starting my own religion but my conscience got the better of me, as L Ron Hubbard (originator of the church of scientology) knew, it's a great way of making a lot of money but I couldn't rip people off like that. So...
In the beginning there were two states that were equal, opposite and absolute. And they were chaos and order. And nothing existed because nothing can be absolutely chaotic nor absolutely ordered.
Then came the event horizon where the two states met and became forces acting on the other to convert them to their desired absolute state and all that exists began to come in to being.
Put simply in everything the force of order keeps everything together, the force of chaos keeps it moving. The more chaos tried to rip everything apart the more order pulled it together and so the first sub atomic particles were formed and emergence took over as the mixes of chaos and order became more and more complex.
OK, that was the quasi scientific bit here's the theological bit. God is the personification of the force of order and the devil is the personification of the force of chaos. Personification, the attributing of human traits to something not human, may suggest to some that humans created them. Really they just gave names to forces which exist, are in everything, which can't exist without the other and have an agenda. The same forces act through us and influence us.
The forces of chaos and order work at all levels from sub-atomic to the abstract such as behaviours. The basic units of everything are a single unit of order and a single unit of chaos. The mix is not homogeneous because that would be too ordered to exist.
Human self awareness gives them the ability to choose whether to take the most ordered of chaotic course in life. Doing good generally results in the most order while doing evil generally results in the most evil however it's not as simple as that.
Too much order or chaos results in collapse. With too much order comes stagnation, freedom to change, to be different, to think for oneself and challenge accepted order is crushed and so nothing evolves and the chance to improve is reduced to nought.
Too much chaos and collapse occurs, people fight each other, nothing can be coordinated and there is much death and destruction.
There is a lot more on the basic concept of everything being the result of chaos and order but it gets a bit tedious.
Quick comparison of this concept with others. It proposes an original state of none existence except for "the state" (God). This one has two pre-existing states, so good and evil always existed. Others claim that God caused everything, this one states that it occurred when the two states met (the fight over heaven?). This one does not explain how chaos and order came about just that they have always been. Other religions also fail to explain how God came about, just that he has always been there.