tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981426022795163696.post3906853401062748246..comments2011-06-28T07:54:56.786-07:00Comments on Musings of a mentat poet: Probable causedesertdanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482520687146889513noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981426022795163696.post-70761556130401882472008-10-01T19:22:00.000-07:002008-10-01T19:22:00.000-07:00I looked on s8int.com but did not see that pair pr...I looked on s8int.com but did not see that pair production expanding planet business. You should link it directly.<BR/>I don't see the difference between a God that creates a universe that works in exactly the way God wants and a God that intervenes in it in miraculous ways.<BR/>Basically, if God can do anything, then God can create a 'rigged' system, so to speak. He or She or It would have built any sort of catastrophic events in at the beginning. If Phaeton blew up, regardless of the reason, fine, but for an all-knowing and eternal God it does not make sense to say that miraculous intervention caused it. Everything is miraculous intervention.<BR/><BR/>This line of thinking makes a difference if you look at it this way: since everything is miraculous, we can regard the self-consistency apparent in the laws that govern the universe as being something that God maintains always. It does not matter what you regard as imperfect; it is beyond the ken of humanity to see why things are the way they are. I do know, the laws that govern the universe seem to be inviolable. Any systematic approach to making sense of it all reveals tremendous patterns free of any inconsistencies. The further we look, the harder they become to understand (which makes sense, because all of the simplest things have already been explained), but they always work out.<BR/>So nobody is any judge of what is perfect. I suppose if we are made in God's image, then we have a natural sense of the way things ought to be, but that is subjective. I am just fine with the way the solar system is. It doesn't seem chaotic to me.T E Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734230279100936884noreply@blogger.com