David Shaw has a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from Aquinas Institute, 1961. This three-year in-depth program focused on Aristotle illuminated with commentaries by Thomas Aquinas.

We have endured 300 years since the Four Revolutionaries of Modern Science began their dismemberment of the Greek cosmos that had endured for 2,000 years.

The Hebrew cosmos and the Greek cosmos made up the traditional theories of creation for the Western world.

Our universe and the ancient Universe are vastly different. The ancient Universe was static. It was thought to have no history. Our Universe is dynamic. It has a history.

With all the information available from the sciences why have overall summaries been so rare? It may be due to the specialization that has done more to analyze than to synthesize. The history of science has been the long story of the achievements of reductionists. The reductionists approach every problem by dividing a whole into its parts. You might describe this approach with one word, simplicity.

That was until 1984 when a group of scientists assembled in Santa Fe New Mexico with the intent to explore a new approach to science. In opposition to the reductionists, the Santa Fe Institute focused on complexity. They addressed problems such as the immune system, large corporations, insect colonies, the internet, and other large networks, always comparing one subject with others searching for common features.

Since our focus is on creation, there is one of these scientists who stands out. Harold Morowitz was the chairman of the science board of the Santa Fe Institute, founding editor of the journal Complexity, and the author or co-author of 19 books.

In this third edition, I review Harold Morowitz's book The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex, 2002. Morowitz died in 2016, but he left us this great book. He tells us a new story of creation from the big bang to philosophy in 28 emergences.