(March 10, 2018 at 2:58 pm)Mathilda Wrote: So Banned, correct me I am not understanding what you believe here, you genuinely think that every snowflake in a snowstorm is being intelligently designed and directed? That if I roll a ball down a slope then something is intelligently directing it to the lowest point of the ground?
That's a good question.
Does God play dice...? Yes and no.
The universe is designed, from the smallest component to the movement of the whole thing, to have a very wide range of optional behavior, and to have prefered behavior due to an attraction, which we observe as the path of least resistance.
That model allows freedom and variety, but also precision and predictability.
It is mathematically clean - laws of probability and randomness come into it as much as patterns and order.
The end result is beauty and harmony, or aptness - which is demonstated by special geometry, proportions and ratios, symmetry, etc. as well as every relation and system of relations from the material to the organic.
The universe was designed for God, to be independent and responsive.
