From Thermodynamics to Religion

How energy, entropy, and complexity connect to the sacred — across seven thinkers who would never share a panel.

What does the second law of thermodynamics have to do with religion? More than you might think. This lectio traces a thread that runs from physics through biology, through the emergence of meaning, all the way to the sacred — showing how thinkers as different as Eric Chaisson, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Nate Hagens, and John Vervaeke converge on a shared insight: that the structures which sustain complex life and the structures which sustain meaning-making are not merely analogous. They may be the same thing. This is the 'unexpected connections' lectio — the one that demonstrates what TEO exists to reveal.