Origin of Life: new commentaries (Introduction)
I hope... I didn't put my foot in my mouth and you really meant that; but it was a quick observation of our talks to date, though I fully admit that it was dangerous to interject... I'm sorry if I did offend. I consider you a friend.-We are certainly good friends. There is no foot in a mouth. I rather enjoyed your analysis of me. There are just things that haven't come up in our discussions, which are limited. > > I've often wished that we all weren't so geographically dispersed... it would be nice to have these chats over a brew and a fire pit. -I have the same wish and a fire pit is out in back. Unlimitless brews or wine is an easily met requirement. ) > > > > This is not true. There is a whole area in the book on theodicy. I present God as a 'tough-love God for good reason. If He were ever-loving,caring and protective, we would never learn to face challenges and develop properly. After all, we have a piece of His brain to work with. We can open up the subject of the problem of evil on this site, and dig deeper, if you wish.-Accept a diety and evil must be faced as a problem to answer. Lots of folks envoke human 'free will', but nature's evils must be accounted for also. Certainly the dog-eat-dog nature of evolution is easily explained, no natural selection without it. Earthquakes and volcanoes are required to make our life-hospitable Earth. This is a perfectly clear area of unavoidable evil, an area that bugs dhw. > > This--I would love. I just saw a National Geographic documentary on Evil, and it sparked a series of inspirations in my head. Free Will of course, having a central role. I've never caught myself into reading so many books at the same time (only 2 are for school... many are for research for my novel.) but I will gladly jump to that part of your book to get a brush on your ideas. > > My observation about not making claims against the UI--it's because I remember on a few different occasions you politely criticizing some of the attempts of dhw and myself. -There are areas of discussion of God or UI we have had where there were personal guesses, not trying to explain theodicy, but what I thought were wild suppositions. I look to thinking about the UI in relation to specific problem areas, and how a UI might logically come at peace with those issues.
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