The Unexpected Universe: Emergence, Convergence, and the “Overview Effect”

Abstract

Employed hermeneutically, science helps to highlight the interrelations between the first creation account in Genesis and the new creation account in Revelation, the “bookends” of the Bible. Both have to do, for example, with processes of emergence and convergence. Moreover, an overview of creation and new creation reveals an ancient pattern that has important implications for ecological practice today.