A cosmology is a spiritual/philosophical overview of the origin, structure, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe — and in Vita Sapien's case, specifically life's place and purpose within that cosmic arc. Vita Sapien's cosmology is ecologically sustainable, unlike those of the major religions.
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Eleven Waypoints
Vita Sapien's Cosmology
About 13.8 billion years ago, this is the earliest point we can observe and measure with current physics — but not necessarily the absolute beginning of existence.
About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar nebula — a giant molecular cloud — gravitationally collapsed, with most mass collecting in the centre to form the Sun while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk where Earth and the other planets formed.
Abiogenesis — the origination of life on Earth arising from non-living chemical compounds.
The Cambrian Explosion, approximately 540 million years ago, when most major animal body plans emerged and complex ecological relationships formed, marking the birth of Gya as an interconnected, self-regulating biosphere.
The evolution of Homo habilis about 3 million years ago — the first of the human family.
The emergence of modern Homo sapien cognition when engineering, art and spirituality converged as powerful forces shaping human culture — centred around 70,000 years ago.
Approximately 800–200 BCE, the emergence of new spiritual and religious beliefs across Eurasia, leading significant human societies to sever their natural spiritual bond to nature in exchange for otherworldly spiritualities.
The age in which humans become the main drivers of planetary change. Vita Sapien marks the beginning of this age with the Alamogordo atomic bomb test — the first nuclear explosion — on July 16, 1945. This is the beginning of the Vita Sapien calendar.
Potentially beginning sometime within the coming decades, a mass movement triggers Homo sapiens to awake spiritually to the Living Planet and begin the transition to an ecologically sustainable civilization that thrives in synergy with the biosphere for a Galactic Year — about 230 million Earth years.
More than 230 million years in the future — the last humans on Earth, as major planetary forces including solar brightening, atmospheric oxygen depletion, and the moist greenhouse transition render Earth uninhabitable for complex life.
800 million to 1 billion years from now, when rising solar luminosity causes the collapse of complex ecosystems and the death of Gya as a living, interconnected biosphere. Thereafter, Biofinalis — as the last living organisms perish.