1. LAUDATO SI: ANTHROLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Dermot Lane
NAPPDA
12 May 2016

2. THE NEW COSMIC STORY
14 billion years ago : the big bang occurred, with a flaring forth of energy
5 billion years ago: the sun and solar systems were born   
4 billion years ago: life in its simplest form began to emerge
2.6 billion years ago: human like animals appear

3. THE NEW COSMIC STORY 200,000 years ago: humans appear
10,000 years ago: agricultural revolution
1600 to 1800 AD : industrial revolution
2000 A.D: technological revolution

4. A video entitled The Creation Story by Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry

5. Another Version of the Cosmic Story
Big Bang ↓
 Energy
Galaxies
Stars
Earth
Matter
Another Version of the Cosmic Story

6. Another Version of the Cosmic Story↓
Molecules 
Biological life
Human life
 Consciousness
Self-consciousness ↓ 
Another Version of the Cosmic Story

7. Another Version of the Cosmic Story↓
Reflective self-consciousness
Historical consciousness
Freedom and responsibility
Care and compassion
Solidarity
Universal communion within diversity
Another Version of the Cosmic Story

8. STEPHEN HAWKINS A Brief History of Time, 1988, 121-122. Big Bang
Energy
Stars
Earth
Matter
STEPHEN HAWKINS
“If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part of 100,000 million million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it reached its present size”
A Brief History of Time,
1988,

11. TEILHARD de CHARDIN, SJ. “All that exists is matter becoming Spirit.
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world;
the stuff of the universe is Spirit--matter.
No other substance but this could produce the human molecule” (1936)

12. Blessed be you harsh matter, Blessed be you, perilous matter Blessed be you mighty matter. I acclaim you as the divine millieu, Charged with creative power, As the ocean stirred by the Spirit, As the clay moulded and infused By the incarnate Word”

14. Blessed be you harsh matter, Blessed be you, perilous matter Blessed be you mighty matter.
I acclaim you as the divine millieu, Charged with creative power, As the ocean stirred by the Spirit, As the clay moulded and infused By the incarnate Word”

15. STEPHEN HAWKINS Big Bang Energy Stars Earth Matter
Energy
Stars
Earth
Matter
STEPHEN HAWKINS
“What is it that breeds fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe”.
A Brief History of Time, 1988, 174.