ABSTRACT
The notion of a God who is with us all the time and everywhere is better understood as heralding the scarcely imaginable abilities of posterity to reconstruct the past and to understand present events better than we do ourselves who are living through them. Thus, noology looks forward to the possible ability of posterity to have cognisance of our most initimate thoughts and acts. The abilities of advanced beings in the future are only possibilities in the sense that the future is uncertain. The Great Day of Judgment awaits us all in posterity wherein we will all be judged according to whatever we have or have not done in our lives. From the purely materialistic point of view, we appear to have acquired all our abilities and the uniqueness of our experiences by pure chance. But this is a backward-looking, retrospective view that focuses on the past and reduces everything to its simplest and lowest common denominator.
