Transformation is a process that occurs every day throughout the natural world.  Even inert matter is constantly changing its form, from solid to liquid to gas and back again. Among living things, insect eggs become larvae, then pupae, and finally adults.  Why shouldn’t human beings transition from one form to another, too?

Knowledge itself also changes its form, to better handle different levels of complexity.  Mathematics and physics ultimately underlie all understanding of the physical world, but at a certain point, things reach a level of complexity where it’s more useful to see them through the lens of chemistry.  As complexity continues to increase to the point where life emerges, biology becomes a more useful means of explaining things.  This is in turn followed by anthropology, then psychology.
 
More recently, quantum science has opened up what might possibly turn out to be a new way of reconciling religious belief with science. In many of the world’s great religions, it’s taken as a given that God transcends time, as well as space.  Since quantum science tells us time may be just an illusion, perhaps this provides a preliminary suggestion of the mechanics underlying the always-was-there/always-will-be-there state of being that is presumed to characterize God.