DAVID: Cosmology: milky way size is enormous (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, July 11, 2019, 05:55 (1964 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: In the OT Genesis says He created everything directly in six days, now as accepted by most scholars 'Yom' is to be literally translated to six eons.

dhw: I’ll leave you both to squabble about the biblical account. Tony’s second point is entirely valid. Even if God exists, why assume that H. sapiens was fully conceived from the beginning, when the history of life shows no sign of humans until 3.5 billion years’ worth of non-human life forms have been and in most cases gone?

Tony's view is process theology.

Not so certain of that. There are bits of Process Theology that I am not certain I agree with

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.