Tony\'s God (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 28, 2011, 01:10 (4745 days ago) @ dhw

Natural disasters may or may not be necessary for the sustenance of life, though I’d be surprised if your Garden of Eden was subject to floods, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions etc. If it was, God would have needed to offer a bit more protection than helmets, pads and training wheels. If it wasn’t, the implication would be that God is perfectly capable of creating a disaster-free environment if he wants to.

As you may remember from my book, I believe that much as God used evolution to create us eventually from early life, the universe also is created to evolve. As a result natural disasters are 'natural'. The Earth must have earthquakes in subduction zones, because the continents must float on the core to have the Earth provide for life as it does. The Earth is a living planet in the sense of Bella's Gaia.