So far I've been enjoying the entries in the "What does "Witch" mean to you?" contest by @naturalmedicine, and since I've had some heavy thoughts on my mind lately, I figured I would just blog about something that makes me grateful. Which is Everything. No, that -that- Everything...

The Actual Everything... perhaps I should explain...

Ladies and Gents: Start your Engines...

... cause this is gonna be a trip. First: some definitions (provided by The Free Dictionary (because it's very thorough) and then chopped up by me (because it's Very thorough.)

ev·o·lu·tion (ĕv′ə-lo͞o′shən, ē′və-)
n. 1.
a. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually
more complex or better form.
Biology:
a. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive
generations, often resulting in the development of new species.
The mechanisms of evolution include natural selection acting on the
genetic variation among individuals, mutation, migration, and genetic drift.
b. The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.
Astronomy:
a. Change in the structure, chemical composition, or dynamical
properties of a celestial object or system such as a planetary system,
star, or galaxy. Evolution often changes the observable or measurable
characteristics of the object or system.
A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements.
Mathematics:
a. The extraction of a root of a quantity.

and never to be outdone:

cre·a·tion·ism (krē-ā′shə-nĭz′əm)
n.
Belief in the supernatural origin of the universe or of humans
and other living things, especially as related in the Bible.

and finally:

e·voke (ĭ-vōk′) tr.v. e·voked, e·vok·ing, e·vokes
a. To give rise to; draw forth; produce
b. To call to mind, as by suggestion, association, or reference
c. To create anew, especially by means of the imagination
d. To summon by magical or supernatural power; conjure.

So we have Evolution and Creationism, the most diametrically opposed explanations -of- an existence, in that existence; and then another stray word, Evoke; that has nothing to do with either of them. Except that it is in fact, the key to both.

When you look at our Universe on a cosmological scale, what you basically have is matter coalescing into objects of tremendous mass, drawn together via gravity. As this happens, the object will eventually reach critical mass, and physical reactions will start to occur. At it's simplest expression, this is how stars are born.

Eventually the reactions in those stars will form elements of higher and higher density, concentrating that mass further and further, crushing it deeper and deeper unto itself, like a great crucible on a galactic scale; until it reaches critical mass again, and then the star explodes.

As all that mass, in its many varied elements, are again drawn toward each other via gravity; you get solar systems, which are really just the corpses of exploded stars.

Oh, you just wait, buddy...

Okay, so far we have the bones of dead stars (planets) orbiting around the re-ignited spark of that stars' soul (The Sun) and those bones are covered in bits of random matter that just kinda smack into each other in that planets' primordial environment and gradually start forming into chains of matter (molecules) completely without rhyme or reason and then quite unexpectedly, one of those molecules just so happens to churn out another molecule just like it. And then both those molecules are doing it, and eventually one churns out a molecule that just so happens to propagate its own kind a little Bigger, Better, Faster, More than the other one...

And that's the story of Evolution: of Stars, solar systems, planets, molecules, chain molecules, self-propagating chain molecules, super-self-propagating chain molecules, super-duper-deluxe-self-propagating chain molecules, increasing in complexity in a sort of resource-extraction arms-race, and those complexities allow Bigger, Better, Faster, More complexities, and eventually you end up with people (human and otherwise) and so on. You've heard this story a thousand times, it's always the same, blah blah blah... Oh wait, it's always the same?

Why is that?

Now stick with me, because this explanation requires we get yet a bit weirder...

"Hush up, I'm getting there..."

Because you see, there's no such thing as Time.

(insert picture of @paintingangels patience wearing thin)

What we refer to as Time is not a real thing, it is a symbolic expression of the observable effects of extending Entropy on matter or a system of organization.

If you're wondering what Entropy is: go bother the folks over on the @steemstem discord, cause I just don't have the... Err... Umm.. symbolic expression or something.

Moving On...

Now, let's talk about the dimensions as we supposedly know them: Height, Width, Depth and Time. No question about the first three, they are easily observed; but that last one.. Time. If there really is no such thing as Time, then just what damned word should we be using to refer to All This Shit that keeps on Happening?

sto·ry 1 (stôr′ē) n. pl. sto·ries
An account or recital of an event or a series of events,
either true or fictitious.

The term Evoke (remember that one?) :

To call to mind, as by suggestion, association, or reference

Everything has a story, and all of the parts of that story also have stories, and so on, and so on, and so on... All the way down to the bones of that dead star, and back to its life before it died... and back before it lived, and back before.... and back before... and back before... When you examine the constituent parts of any object or system of material organization, you can infer via it's composition the story by which it came to be, in the material (galactic) sense. Especially Life, because it carries its story around with it everywhere it goes, written in its bones...

So that's what Evokreationism is: My own term for understanding the evolution of Life on a cosmological scale... again, nothing new here... Come to think of it, why did I even bother coming up with the term? I mean, it's all right there, laid out in molecular physics and evolutionary theory... honestly, Creationism doesn't even really come into it...

At least until the Stories started giving a shit...

See you in Part II: Creation Boogaloo

Grace to the Gracious,

Silas Danois