[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the excerpts, MHGinTN! But truly I do not consider physical cosmology to be in the "big thinking" class. A better description for what I mean by "big thinking" would be Einstein's phrase "the lofty structure of all that there is."

[MHGinTN]

If the notion that phenomena such as light may be emergent qualities of phase states of the universe (and that is radical to modern Physics) is not a big idea, then I am at a loss to see what big ideas would impress your science twinge. Along the same vein of light being an emergent quality of the universe, we could also conjecture that the advent of life is an emergent quality of the Creation, and that the advent of spirit mixed into the universe is an emergent quality ... emergent doesn't mean it isn't something The Creator is doing as a creative act in the nature of the universe He has created in such a finely tuned state.