Don H wrote:
>>
>> adl wrote:
>>> dont get fooled by the title, im am not trying to be redundant.
>>>
>>> it strikes me that so little people think of the possibility of
>>> evolution being created by god. in that view, god created a factory
>>> (this world) which would therefore produce whatever creatures he
>>> wanted. so if he wanted animal x, y and z, he just set the initial
>>> conditions so that the end results would be, after many millennia, x, y,
>>> z.
>>>
>>> of course, there is nothing supporting this idea, nor refuting it.
>>
>> Another view is that "reality" is really a large experiment being run
>> by an extra-universal intelligence (God, if you like). The universe may
>> not be much more than a hyper-complex version of Sims.
>>
>> This isn't a new idea. The metaphysical view in the Kabbalah depicts
>> the universe as a seies of creations, in each "God" withdrawing a
>> particular "aspect" of perfection as an "experiment" to see what the
>> results are. Supposedly the withdrawn element in this universe is the
>> requirement to adhere to "divine law" (i.e. the introduction of "free
>> will").
>>
>> If one views the universe as a "divine experiment" then of course
>> evolution and God are compatible. Not only can God be the creator of
>> the initial conditions, but God can be experimenting to see what the
>> outcome is as well.
>>
> # There may be an Intelligence behind Phenomena but there is no evidence for
> it. Any given Universe must operate according to certain "laws", if it is
> to be dynamic and not static, and such laws must be consistent in their
> functioning.
Baugh humbug. The Universe does whatever it does.
Any laws are our own inventions in an attempt to
predict the future and enhance our own survival.
> As to purpose, there is no evidence of this, only causal
> consequences, of which the production of increasing complexity, resulting in
> an ape with a large cerebral cortex, is purely a random fact.
If we assume some stupid God created us where
does this give Him any right to assign a purpose?
Grow up, be an adult, and choose your own damn
purpose.
> Any Deity need not be anthropomorphic, but could be a bug-eyed monster
> with a sadistic sense of humour - as most life preys on other life - and
> could, as alleged, have set the whole machinery in motion. Thus Deism,
> instead of Theism.
> As the extinction of Homo Sapiens seems imminent (within the next decade
> or so) due to over-population of planet Earth, no great significance should
> be placed on demise of yet one more species, us. Nature, God, or whatever,
> will go on, as before, but without ourselves being present.
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No essence. No permanence. No perfection
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No essence. No permanence. No perfection.
