I was going to write a point-by-point response to this: The New Epistemic Deal | Two-Phase Cosmology But any given point looked pretty heavy on its own, so I decided to launch the threads one at time.
This one is on point 4: Both materialism and physicalism should be rejected.
Authors who insist on hard core materialist of physicalist reductionism always fail to include themselves in the reduction, so somehow they float like disembodied minds scanning all of reality and explaining it to us dummies, who in any case are just so many dominoes falling in the wake of the Big Bang, so who cares what we think anyway? We were all fated to think what we think. Cause and effect. Nothing to see here!
Neither materialism nor physicalism resonate with my experience of conscious awareness embedded in a generally living world. I like the framework below has a more promising starting point.
It fun to run that through an LLM along with NED and see what comes from it. Quite a bit I rather like! I do believe any Creator of course dwells beyond the linear-temporal (Augustine of Hippo understood that quite clearly), so the idea of what happened “before” creation is nonsensical. Creation must be flowing into all temporal moments from beyond all temporal moments. Quantum decoherence meets that requirement rather nicely. Also, I believe human body-minds are basically antennae for tuning into spiritual signal, so it would not shock me if our brains are specially adapted for sensitivity to such decoherence events. I see spirit-matter-spirit as a cyclical flow, with permeable boundaries. Of course, a reductionist would say that’s just my breakfast talking!