The history of the cosmos (since the so-called Big Bang)
presents us with a series of emergent stages.
Each is built upon the previous stage,
incorporates previous stages, and is more complex.
This series of ever more advanced stages of being,
comprises the phenomenon of Emergent Evolution.

The first emergent, of which we are aware,
is the initiation of physical matter from an immaterial source.
After that came pre-programmed or instinctive forms of life,
then conscious life, and, following that, human life,
a form of life which exercises a moral consciousness
and thus experiences the fear of non-being.

We could identify these four stages as
the physical, the instinctive, the conscious and the moral.

Each successive emergent stage in the process
is characterised by less restrictive laws than the previous
and has a greater freedom in their application;
has some form of widened choice, maybe.

It is reasonable to assume that, in some final stage,
there would be an entity similar to God,
which lies beyond all restrictions.

Some would argue that this final stage
is the next to emerge following human existence
(and that Jesus was an early example of that emergent),
though this may be a feature of our human arrogance
- - and ignorance.

Yet, from this progressive emergence, we may see
that Goodness could have initiated the process of evolution
of the cosmos with the the intention of enabling
the self-creation of an entity similar to God
that is based on love alone.