(March 25, 2014 at 1:59 am)Esquilax Wrote:(March 25, 2014 at 12:09 am)snowtracks Wrote: if human are to exist, this U's enormous mass is critical: one reason is that with less density, stars and planets wouldn't form. the expansion rate would be so rapid that gravity wouldn't have the opportunity to pull together the gas and dust to form them. God doesn't create anything that doesn't serve a purpose.
Are you saying god couldn't have just formed the stars and planets himself, without all this rigmarole about deadly space radiation?
That's the problem here: you're retrofitting design into the universe you see, while completely ignoring the fact that a universe designed from the ground up as one made for life- which is what you're claiming- would look completely different.
the U was designed according to fixed physical laws and entire U function according to those laws. from genesis, God surveyed his creation and labeled it "very good" which implies nature manifested appropriate design for fulfillment of its purpose and as such isn't designed for ultimate perfection. one purpose is a demonstration of good over evil, another life over death. free will, will denigrate God very good creation over time["bondage of decay", (entropy - 2'nd law of thermo.)]. after the demonstration of good over evil, the U has an ending in finite time, and will be rolled up like a scroll and vanish in a burst of extreme heat. but again, this will not be the end of God's created spiritual being (human being, and angels)...God asked Job, “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation … and all the angels shouted for joy?” (Job 38:4,7).
Atheist Credo: An universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.