The immensity of the universe (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 01:22 (3006 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The language is becoming interesting: the elements could “work toward life”? I thought your God planned and did all the work.-I used the word 'work' in the sense of a progressive working process. -> dhw: “The proper planet appeared”? I thought your God specially planned and created it.-It is just as possible that His evolving universe developed the Earth due to His process or He carefully directed the production of an Earth. Either is possible as I view it.-> dhw: In my summary, I indicated other factors that your God might have left to chance (now in bold). So just to clarify again: are you now eliminating the chance alternatives and saying: 1) God organized (and presumably still organizes) all the billions of solar systems and all the colossal explosions of giant stars? And 2) this was his method of creating a relatively tiny collection of “life-giving elements” which he directed (not sure about the timing here) to land on a specially created Earth? And 3) once he'd prepared Earth, he assembled these products of millions of explosions into the first minute cells, which he preprogrammed (apart from when he dabbled) to produce the weaverbird's nest and the rest of evolutionary history, with us the final goal? Sorry about the interrogation, but as you know, I do like a bit of clarity!-As I noted above. He either created a process which gave the proper final results, or He carefully directed every desired result. Either works for me. He was always in control.