Problems with this section (Agnosticism)

by Frank Paris , Friday, November 06, 2009, 17:39 (5495 days ago) @ dhw

"1) Did God create these particles in the knowledge that they would hook up and produce life?"-I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that in at least some past universes (an infinite number in fact) he had created fundamentals that did this. I don't know whether God creates the same fundamentals in all universes. It could be that the fundamentals in some universes don't produce evolving universes and they quickly fizzle out, or dissipate so quickly that evolution is impossible.-"2) Did God create these particles in the knowledge that when they hooked up and produced life, they would metabolize and reproduce with slight errors (which in my view leads to evolution)?"-I don't know. One possibility is that in each universe, God creates fundamentals with different "initial contants" just to see what happens. Sometimes (maybe once in 10**500 times) they do have the intrinsic power to evolve.-"3) What do YOU mean when you say life and the codes for evolution could have come about "by accident"?-I mean that the fundamentals were sufficient to produce the codes for evolution strictly by working through their own nature. But I don't know whether the fundamentals in our universe could only evolve life based on DNA with our codes. Maybe other genetic codes for life are possible, even within our universe. Nobody knows. That's something for science to eventually figure out, and is not a theological question.-"The only way I can link your two statements is by saying that if life came about by accident, but God created the life-giving particles, he didn't know what he was doing."-Could be, I don't know. In any case, that has nothing to do with theology. The only thing that is important is that it is possible for the fundamentals in some universe or other, once in a while, to evolve into higher life forms.-You then change the subject to my statement (common among mystics) that "All is One" and are confused by apparent contradictions with that statement. That's the subject for another post.