We know from ourselves that our universe is a consciousness-bearing universe.

We also know from QM there is crosstalk between observer and observed, thus establishing the essential sociability of both existence and consciousness.

With amazement we see at the sub-atomic level bi-directional negotiation between observer and observed regarding the identity of each.

These facts alert us to the social design of our universe. It is not a place of isolation and solitude in any absolute sense.

Few disagree that the natural world of our everyday lives is socially configured and socially negotiated. These are echoes of what physicists perceive more starkly at the sub-atomic level.

Theism claims God-Spirit dwells beyond the natural world and, moreover, causes its histories and experiences as physical events.

There is an issue with this claim that can be labeled the point-of-contact Venn diagram problem. As we know from geometry, when two circles overlap partially, they create a shared space or common ground known at the Venn diagram. It’s obvious that within the boundaries of the Venn diagram, the two circles exist as one. Well, if two circles intersect, it cannot be the case they simultaneously lie beyond each other.

Point-of-contact precludes parallelism and thus all relationships assume positive values of sameness between inter-related things. Since theism centers the dialogue between God-Spirit and human, it necessarily assumes a positive degree of sameness of the correspondents. It even asserts human being created in the likeness of God-Spirit.

With such claims, theism’s claim of God-Spirit’s transcendence of human’s physical realm establishes an untenable contradiction. If God-Spirit’s realm is parallel to our human realm, how does God-Spirit talk to us? How does providence nurture us into the good life?

The unintelligible mystery of existence offers an answer to the point-of-contact Venn diagram problem.

The short version of the answer simply says, “existence is social.”

God socializes with human by way of the axiom.

No one, neither God-Spirit nor human, stands alone. God-Spirit didn’t so much create human as allow for the co-creation of human alongside God-Spirit. This is why human has free will. This is love. This is Tevi walking out to the fence that encircles his hovel and having talks with God-Spirit, sometimes agreeing, sometimes arguing.

Through the lens of theism, God-Spirit talks to science through axioms. Experiments like all other types of narratives must have a beginning. They take recourse to the axiom, assumption without argument.

Every narrative boils down to some axiom or other because narrative is existence organized into meaning. Without the filter of narrative, sensory overload en route to chaos ensues.

One might argue God-Spirit is fulminating creation without restraint. For this reason Moses on Mount Sinai had to look askance from the Presence lest he get ripped apart by excess of possibility.

Now we have a useful synonym for mysticism, fulminating creation without restraint.

Axioms as self-evident truths without argument is scientific mysticism.

Existence is the limit of logic, the infra-structure of narrative.

Narrative is human talking towards existence. The big “however” here is the presupposition of existence towards narrative.

There’s no escaping this dog chasing its tail.

Axiomatic existence is the arbitrary and necessary starting point for consciousness. Narratives can explain themselves up to the point of the naked fact of their existence.

Existence, fulminating creation without restraint, remains unintelligible without consciousness giving it limitation and thereby form.

Reality is the upshot of the negotiation of the yin-yang creative conflict of the two inseparable formative powers.

Existence is divine. Consciousness is sacred.

God-Spirit speaks the language of axioms. This is IAM speak.

Denial of God-Spirit establishes a cosmic solitude for sentient beings in relation to existence; they are not solitary in relation to each other. As a whole, sentience by view of atheism is an arbitrary existence since science cannot explain or justify existence.

Is life peer-to-peer? Given the recent lab fabrication of synthetic cells, the answer is almost “no.” Human is still operating at the Dr. Frankenstein phase of reconstruction of pre-existing vital parts towards construction of a sentient being.

If we suppose, however, that human can fabricate sentience from the scratch of organic compounds, such fabrication fails no less than before regarding human silence face-to-face with the mystery of existence.

Logic is a continuity. Existence is the limit of continuity. This is why there is not nothing. Nothing is the ultimate dis-continuity and continuity (and its categorical negative) cannot arrive at existence.

God speaks in axioms. This IAM speak. Axioms to science is IAM speak. This is spirit world to science, as science is limited to continuity.

Science gets its holy writ - self-evident truths from IAM speak.

Atheism, denial of IAM speak = cosmic solipsism. It assumes physicalist sentience is alone in existence. But what about the axioms that science cannot create? These axioms ground science.

Atheism = reductive physicalism. Theism is compatible with non-reductive physicalism.

Existence is not a continuity. It is a serially transcendent holism. The spontaneous popping into existence of elementary particles is propagation from a physicalist ground; it exemplifies serial holism. Life propagating spontaneously from a physical ground is transcendent holism. Existence is peer to peer. Existence never propagates from non-existence.

The mystery of otherness is ordained by the inherent sociability of QM entanglement of knowing_being. This cosmic tango requires a minimum of two. Given the essence of creation as a duet, we also have as essentials self-and-other and to-and-from.

By action of its own intimate partner science, atheism is precluded from extirpating cosmic otherness.

The two parts of the creation: self and other at present remain rooted in mystery. Existence is not a continuity, so space and time cannot tell us anything about the mystery of the cosmic duet.

Serial holism is a fiction of language trying to rationalize existence which cannot be rationalized at the level of a 3D matrix.

Perhaps 4D logic, another fiction of language, attains to a level of “continuity” that gives meaning to serial holism.

Theism through faith knows we come from God but does not understand God.

Atheism, though faithful, in the absence of physicalism explaining existence, has no idea where it comes from.

The universe cannot create herself except through the mysterious dialogue of self and other.

Existence, positioned beyond meaning, brooks no isolation and that is the undying hope of the cosmos.