Science, God, Higher Beings & The Resurrection - Jean-Philippe Marceau

Jean-Philippe Marceau is a writer and Christian symbolic thinker.Ancient thinkers were often wise to non-material higher-level beings like angels. However, modern day materialism has made us myopic to such patterns. How should we understand angels and higher beings in light of modern science?In this podcast, learn how modern science is embracing non-materialist ideas, how ancients thought about angels in terms of higher-level patterns like cities or societies, why physical laws like E=mc2 are angels if such patterns are agentic, why Christ's incarnation helps bridge the material world with higher-level patterns, evolution's compatibility with Christianity, and more...Timestamps:00:00 Modern Science Vs. Christianity02:01 Why Scientists Aren't Always Materialists04:07 Successes and Failures of Materialism05:19 Higher Level Entities07:26 AI, Facebook and other Higher Beings09:30 How We Participate in Higher Beings11:21 What are Angels and Spirits?12:18 The "Angel" of Patterns such as E=mc214:27 We know nothing of the real nature of physical entities15:30 The Angels of Virtues and Other Patterns18:00 Modernity Ignoring Higher Level Patterns20:59 Being Manipulated by Social Media24:30 Modern Meaning Crisis and Higher Level Agencies30:29 Surviving in a world with Higher Patterns33:05 How Higher Patterns Lead To God33:56 Why Can Humans Interact with Mathematical Entities?39:05 The Incarnation is the Best Scientific Theory of Reality41:50 Why Christ's Incarnation Makes Science Possible44:42 Why Miracles Show us the Structure of Reality46:55 The Resurrection and Its Implications for Creation48:20 Resurrection of the whole of creation in Christ51:08 Why did God create the world?54:20 How we bring up animals and lower level patterns56:54 Evolution and Its Compatibility with ChristianityFind JP Marceau: Symbolic World articles: https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/team/jean-philippe-marceau YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@j.p.marceau5146 New book: https://store.thesymbolicworld.com/products/post-reductionist-christianity-a-way-out-of-the-meaning-crisis Our previous Conversation: https://youtu.be/ecIpILEnAyoFind me: Substack: https://substack.com/@jackroycroftsherry (where I'll be writing on topics related to this podcast soon...)