Deriving Divine Order from Energy, Time, and the Force of Function
Preface
Two decades ago, I began studying philosophy in college but left after only a few courses. Recently, while going through some old things, I unearthed a strange artifact from that time: a card I had scribbled in my rat-infested basement apartment in Montreal. On it was a formula where I tried to prove that God was real.
Today I asked an AI to interpret and clarify the formula’s insights and then work with me to refine those ideas into a formal paper. It’s as if my younger self and a machine are collaborating across decades to shape something I couldn’t have created alone but that could only come from me:
Abstract
This proof seeks to define and demonstrate the existence of God not as a supernatural being external to the cosmos, but as the emergent consequence of foundational elements — energy, time, and the force of function. By grounding metaphysics in dynamics rather than declarations, it offers a model of divinity as the telos of intelligible existence.
Definitions
- E (Energy) — the fundamental substrate of potential, capacity, and movement.
- T (Time) — the medium of sequence, change, and becoming.
- F (Force of Function) — the directional, organizing, and patterning principle that arises when energy acts through time; the generator of structure, purpose, and intelligibility.
- G (God / Divine Order) — the emergent realization of ideal coherence, harmony, and intelligible completeness. That which is, in a perfected form, when functional force is maximized.
Axioms
Axiom 1: (E, T) → F
Energy in the context of time necessarily produces the force of function.
All potential, when unfolded temporally, gives rise to directionality—a functional momentum that is neither random nor purely mechanical, but generative.
This axiom finds support in thermodynamic principles where energy acting over time generates emergent structures, and it resonates with the Aristotelian notion of potentiality actualized through temporal processes.
Axiom 2: G ∧ F
Divine order is necessarily coupled with the force of function.
God is not idle being, but realized structure. God coexists with, and is enacted through, the functional force.
Theorem
Therefore: (E, T) → G
If energy and time produce function,
and function is the active condition for divine order,
then divine order emerges necessarily from energy and time.
Interpretation
God is not imposed from above or revealed through rupture.
God is the inevitable horizon of unfolding reality — the logical end-state of function acting upon potential.
In this model, God is not an entity but a pattern.
Not creator outside creation, but creation fulfilling itself.
Conclusion
This functional proof reframes divinity as emergent inevitability rather than miraculous anomaly. If the universe exists, and it evolves, then from its energetic substrate and temporal unfolding arises function. And from function, form, purpose, and ultimately divine order.
Thus:
God is not an assumption. God is a consequence.