(April 15, 2013 at 1:31 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 15, 2013 at 1:37 am)Ryantology Wrote: Which is nothing if not a fantastic argument against the assertion that God created all real things through his 'love'.Depends on your understanding of love. Certainly, the emotional affections of human beings does not create directly. Human love does however reflect the nature of Divine Love.
That is the whole point. Why are humans, as nasty and wicked and cruel as some of us are, capable of deeper and more resilient love than your god?
Quote:While this idea has been expressed in various ways, I think of it as this: a disposition to instantiate and unify. Not to dismiss the role of entropy in the Divine Order, but it does seem that life, contrary to being a random occurence also reflects this inherent ability of the physical world to self-organize.
If this were the case, life would spring up everywhere in the universe, as life is the most profound example of self-organization of which we've seen, and so far as we are currently aware, it is an example which requires ridiculously exacting circumstances to happen (which, by the way, is as far from 'random' as you get).
