Wow, that is one thought provoking discussion. I think I might be able to shine some light on your thinking of CS Theology.
Let’s start with a passage from S&H page 269:14 “Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.” As well as the Bible Hab 1:13 “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:”
I agree God is not aware of the minutia of material existence and of matter, but that is not to say he is not aware of the spiritual qualities from which these illusions of material sense seem to emanate from. Take the chicken slaughter house, I’m not to sure God is aware of the material structure and procedures going on in there. But God certainly is aware of His divine ability to care for his children, to love them, nourishing them. Now you might say, “what about the chickens?” And I would ask, is their life in matter? any more than man? For that matter is our nourishment in matter, flesh? (You might want to refer to S&H 338:12 “Admit the common hypothesis that food is the nutriment of life, and there follows the necessity for another admission in the opposite direction, — that food has power to destroy Life, God, through a deficiency or an excess, a quality or a quantity.”)
What about someone who has transgress the oath of marriage and has committed adultery? (Is asking for a more open marriage.) Does God know the specifics of the offense? My question is where did this offense really take place? In a hotel room or in thought? In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus addresses this very question. The Hebraic Law of the Ten commandments had been manipulated and rationalized but human conjecture and religious piety. So Jesus revisited it and made it plain for everyone. See Matt 5:27,28 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
I believe Mrs Eddy’s use of the term Science is because of the absolute certainty that when one prays with and understanding of God as ever-present Mind, all encompassing Love, a law of harmony, etc and realizes ones being as not material but as the image and likeness of God, Spirit, Soul, Thought is transformed, reformations takes place, and healing is inevitable. In physical science conclusions are made through trial and error, applying the same equation/experiment over and over and seeing the same results each time. So it is with Christian Science. Through the application of the understanding of God and His creation, thought is uplifted. We feel we see this in the healing of material conditions, but the true healing and reformation takes place in consciousness.
As we apply this principles to live the dream of material existence becomes less powerful and we find we are able to see the spiritual qualities and realities of things more consistently and with greater clarity.
I hope that sheds light on your question.

Awhile back I started living with a roommate. My roommate of course isn’t a Christian Scientist, and is a bit younger than me, but he said something to me awhile back that I think relates to this discussion. He was going to be traveling home (which was out of state) for the holidays to see family and a number of old friends from high school. Apparently some of his friends were planning on experimenting a bit with some illegal drugs, and he had been invited to join them and was considering that. I told him, “you really don’t want to do that…”

Now honestly I don’t believe he did; I think he was protected that weekend and led to do some other things instead. But later I realized something, namely that whether or not he partook in that sinful scene was not as important as the thought behind it. Whether he did or didn’t was not the final judgment or the deciding factor as to whether or not he was “being a bad person” or what have you. The fact that he had to consider it in the first place was the real problem!

I was reminded of how Jesus revealed how serious the demands of the Ten Commandments are to the Jews of his day. They all knew the Ten Commandments, and speaking to the seventh, he raised the bar significantly when he told them, “you think that sleeping with another woman is committing adultery, but I tell you that if you so much as look at another woman and daydream lustful thoughts about her, you have already broken the commandment and committed adultery.” So it’s not as much about whether we actually do something in matter; it’s about where our thinking is at. The same with my roommate, the “sin” wasn’t so much whether he were to try illegal drugs or not, but the fact that he was seriously contemplating it was already a sin.

Now on the bright side of things, I’ve been reading through the Bible with some friends, and noticed that Numbers 15 talks all about the fact that if you commit a sin out of ignorance — not really realizing that what you’re doing is a sin — then that is not as severe as partaking in something that you know is a sin. And a large portion of the time I think people are driven to do things that are at best questionable out of ignorance. And I’m not talking about a simple ignorance of what is a “good” activity versus a “bad” activity, I’m talking about being ignorant of their true nature as the immortal, perfect child of God who has no need for such things.

Speaking to your first couple of examples, Newt Gingrich asking his wife for an “open marriage” is really just the manifestation of the adulterous thought that was already there. The particulars of how it manifest are really inconsequential. I don’t see God as being overly concerned or even aware of those particulars, but I do see Him as playing a role in exposing and changing where consciousness is at. What needs changing and repenting of is the underlying thought, which represents a consciousness turned away from God and looking at matter. So when I think about these bigger questions of “what is God aware of?” that’s what comes to mind: not the particulars of the human situation, but where our consciousness is at.

Jesus once addressed a crowd saying this:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

He knew where their consciousness was at, and accordingly he knew that it was inevitable that they would act out sinful behaviors before they actually acted them out. What really needs redeeming in that case is not as much the sinful behavior itself, but the desire to act out that sinful behavior in the first place. And it’s not as much about simply scolding people into submission; it’s about replacing the thought that one needs to find satisfaction outside of God with the understanding that they are cherished, deeply appreciated, and already completely satisfied. But before that understanding is not only acknowledged but also proved, God still calls out, “Adam, where art thou?” As Mrs. Eddy says…

"Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?" Until the lesson is learned that God is the only Mind governing man, mortal belief will be afraid as it was in the beginning, and will hide from the demand, "Where art thou?" This awful demand, "Adam, where art thou?" is met by the admission from the head, heart, stomach, blood, nerves, etc.: "Lo, here I am, looking for happiness and life in the body, but finding only an illusion, a blending of false claims, false pleasure, pain, sin, sickness, and death."

There are a number of interesting ideas presented in the responses here and I can’t comment on everything I’ve thought of regarding this topic right now, but I will add some thoughts I had based on the responses and thinking about this more.

In many way my question is closely related to the earlier thread asking whether Christian Science is a science. However, it seemed to me that the impetus behind that question was analyzing why CS does not follow the scientific methodology in verifying its hypotheses. And the general consensus seemed to be that material evidence cannot be used to evaluate the working of CS because CS is based on spiritual ideas. Instead verification of the correctness of the hypotheses of CS is something that comes through spiritual revelation. It was not stated in this way of course, and I’m sure there are variations of opinions on the subject and I don’t claim my summary is authoritative. But essentially the theology of CS teaches that the testimony of the material senses is not legitimate, thus CS cannot be evaluated simply based on how its influences things which appear to exist in a material form.

My question in this thread is of a different nature, it is essentially how are the hypotheses that form the basis of CS theology communicated to man in the first place. In the case of material science the process by which a hypothesis is formed is actually somewhat subjective as well. It typically boils down to a combination of intuition associated with an understanding of the problem, and experimentation to see if the proposed explanation is correct.

The important point is that in the case of the scientific method the phenomena which the scientist seeks to understand and explain are themselves unaware of the state of human thinking about them. For instance in the previous thread there was some discussion about the idea of paradigm shift, but it’s important to note that the paradigm shifts that seem to occur are in human understanding, not in the physical phenomena themselves.

Now we could imagine that Christian Science could work in a similar way. We could imagine that there is a set of divine laws governing the spiritual universe and that we are able to discover and understand those laws as a result of our interaction with the spiritual universe. And like with material science, we could imagine that we are helped in furthering our understanding by learning from things that other people have learned and explained before. In material science no one starts from a blank slate, instead research requires first studying existing work in one’s field of interest and then beginning work on solving unanswered questions. So it would be possible for a similar methodology to exist for God to communicate ideas to man. In this way the ideas themselves would be perfect and eternal, and it would only be the human understanding of them that was growing and developing.

However, it seems to me that the process of supernatural revelation does not fit within this philosophical framework. For instance if the virgin birth were somehow indicative of a generally advanced state of human thinking, then it seems that it should be possible for this to occur in more cases than just that of Mary the mother of Jesus.

We are told in S&H that “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s self-conscious communion with God.” My question then is should this sort of communion with God be viewed as a unique event that would never be repeated? If so then why? If it is simply an application of some general principle then it seems that this logically implies that the event could occur in more than one case. S&H goes on to say “Hence he could give a more spiritual idea of life than other men, and could demonstrate the Science of Love—his Father or divine Principle.” It seems to me that this seems to imply that the conditions associated with Jesus’s birth gave him a special ability that cannot be attained by man under normal circumstances in this world.
Furthermore it seems like the theories that CS associates with Jesus’s life imply that we was sent to fulfill a mission to help struggling humanity rise above the limitations of material sense. But doesn’t the very fact that Jesus had this mission imply that God is aware of humanity’s struggles? If we go back to the methodology of human science (or math) the understanding of new ideas is not associated with the ideas themselves knowing that they are misunderstood and sending some special messenger to humanity to help them learn the truth.

That is why it seems to me that acts of supernatural divine revelation (such as the birth and resurrection of Jesus) would imply that God is aware of material existence. Because if God were not aware of this condition then these unrepeatable miraculous events would not have occurred. Anyway these are some of my thoughts on this subject right now. I would be interested to hear what ideas other people have.