There are two things I want to discuss, and I believe they have similar answers, although I think that despite all appearances they are different questions.
The first question is “How could the universe be created if it has the law of conservation of energy, which states that matter/energy can neither be created nor destroyed?”
The second [...]
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Creation and Natural Laws
Posted in God, tagged conservation of energy, God, laws of nature on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More on Science
Posted in God, Religion, Science, prayer, tagged God, philosophy of science, Science, science and God, science and religion on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been reserving a longer post for the near future on the philosophy of science, because I have been studying the philosophy of science and the error of scientism since the beginning of the school year in preparation for a term paper in College Composition. Yes, very exciting it is.
Today in conversation someone made [...]
Beginning of the Universe, Part 1
Posted in God, tagged beginning of the universe, God, infinitely old universe, Kalam cosmological argument, Proof of God, William Lane Craig on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Kalam Cosmological Argument runs like this;
1) Everything that begins to exist was begun by something else
2) The universe began to exist
3) Therefore, something existed before the universe to begin it
To follow is a defense of the 2nd premise, that the universe began to exist.
Now, first imagine going into the future. You can imagine that [...]
The Problem of the Damned, Part 3
Posted in God, Heaven and Hell, salvation, tagged evolution, problem of the damned on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Problem of the Damned goes like this; why did God create a world that will have people who will experience eternal damnation when He theoretically could’ve created a world in which there were no people who rejected Him and had free will, per His omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence?
My first answer was based on the [...]
Should God Create when there would be Damned?
Posted in God, Heaven and Hell, joy, salvation, tagged beatific vision, eternal life, Heaven, Hell, joy, joy in God, joy of eternal life, loss of the damned on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let us suppose, at least for the theory at least one of these propositions is true;
God is just to create a world where there are damned because
1) of the absolute contingency of a person (as considered here)
2) this is the best of all possible worlds (Liebniz)
3) There is no other possible world (I think this [...]
The Problem of the Damned, Part 2
Posted in God, tagged absolute contingency, moral problem of God, possible worlds, problem of evil, problem of the damned, theodicy on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The first solution I have to the “Problem of the Damned” is that the reason God created this particular universe is because of our absolute contingency. What I mean by this is that the person known as me, who I am in essence doesn’t and couldn’t possibly exist in any other universe. There could be [...]
The Problem of the Damned, Part 1
Posted in God, tagged God, problem of evil, theodicy on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rather than calling it the problem of evil, I would call the “moral problem” of God existing the “Problem of the Damned.” First, why the problem of evil is not sufficient to deny the existence of God’s omnibenevolence.
Physical evils, such as earthquakes, illnesses, and other acts of nature that lack any purposeful design behind them, [...]
Justification for Creating and Free Will
Posted in God, existentialism, tagged character of God, creation, God, God's justice, justification for creating, Omnibenevolence, omniscience on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does God need justification for creating a sentient being? If yes, then I can imagine that the justification can only come from God Himself, since everything that exists other than God is necessarily created by God, and so any answer other than God resolves to the absurdity of something that was created without justification that [...]
What is a Life worth living?
Posted in God, meaning, tagged Absolute, ethics, God, Heaven, Hell, Life, life worth living, meaning on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are I think two questions that need to be answered to figure out the answer to “What is a Life worth living?”
The first is “Is Life worth living only if there is something worth dying for?” The off the cuff answer I receive to this question is typically “Well, no, duh…” However, I think [...]
Abstraction and Perception
Posted in God, tagged abstraction, experience, God, infinity, nothingness, perception on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we imagine abstracts (universals or metaphysical rules, such as the laws of physics), we can only conceive of them in relation to what we can perceive.
This means we must speak analogously (metaphorically) about at least two things; nothingness and infinity.
The first, nothingness. The reason we can’t really think about nothing is because the very [...]
