Transcendence in matter, evolution, and the universal church

Paul Erbrich, a Jesuit priest and professor emeritus of natural philosophy, proposes in Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI that "evolution as a whole is goal-oriented .... For phylogenesis is an orthogenesis, a development toward a higher level ... an ever greater emancipation from the constraints of the environment, certainly not for every species of living thing, but for the front-runners in the evolutionary crowd" (p 74) (http://t.co/vfg14jII). I think that Erbrich presents a key to integrating scientific investigation into origins with the Christian understanding of creation by a loving God. The universal church as understood in modern orthodox Christianity is a higher level of organization than natural human families; an organization that links the Triune God, his Saints living and dead, with all humanity. Christ initiated this Church during his ministry and intended it for all people. One might construct a hierarchy of transcendent organization starting from the church, passing through all living creatures, and down to the smallest known sub-atomic particle. It would be interesting to analogically link this hierarchy, if it could be developed, with the "Arrow of Complexity" hypothesis that is being explored in silico by Artificial Life researchers. One issue they have found is that transcendent organization does not seem to occur beyond what can be thought of as in silico viruses (http://t.co/xYXgsET1). Perhaps the main barrier here is that the simulations are done with Von Neumann Machines (the architecture of all commodity computers) which have known computational limitations. Such simulations might need to occur in computers with novel architectures that mimic the information exchanges occurring in the sub-atomic sphere of our our natural world before the "Arrow of Complexity" is demonstrated to a more convincing degree.