We participate in the creation. The University of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research has actually found that  our intentions has a slight non-local effect on the outcome of things. This effect is stronger when we enjoy or love  the experience.  There is no physical explanation for the process.  As with all science the next step is to come to understand the natural principles behind this phenomena. Then the next step is to develop the technology to further "subdue the world" with God's resonating help.  Here is a quote from the Princeton page; "Beyond its scientific impact and its technological applications, clear evidence of an active role of consciousness in the establishment of reality holds sweeping implications for our view of ourselves, our relationship to others, and to the cosmos in which we exist. These, in turn, must inevitably impact our values, our priorities, our sense of responsibility, and our style of life. Integration of these changes across the society can lead to a substantially superior cultural ethic, wherein the long-estranged siblings of science and spirit, of analysis and aesthetics, of intellect and intuition, and of many other subjective and objective aspects of human experience will be productively reunited."  If you want to enter the kingdom of heaven just knock on the door. Just try. Apply your creative will to it. 

YES we participate in our salvation! We have been trying to transcend our condition all along.  God created and we are a part of a self ordering universe.  Looking over the span of time we see progress, from the single celled organism to the human mind. We see progress from the Stone Age to the computer age. Essentially this progress is an increase in the depth of information contained in living things. Scientifically, the point of this progress is to better adapt to the environment. Spiritually the point of this progress is to strive for and know God.  I have a theory that God’s ordering principle is; information attracts (loves) more information. This attraction is another force in nature. The more information there is in objects, the deeper and the more different it is (asymmetric)  the stronger the attraction. A connecting harmony emerges. This applies to subatomic particles and highly ordered human societies.  There is an actual potential in difference. Here are some examples: