"perfect" nature

A week or two ago there was a thread on this list about the meaning of "good" and "perfect" creation. With that in mind, I couldn't help but note the quote from Albert Einstein as featured on the January 2005 calendar page of the American Institute of Physics calendar:

"As a scientist, I believe that nature is a perfect structure, seen from the standpoint of reason and logical analysis" A. Einstein to Raymond Benenson, January 31, 1946, Einstein Archives 56-505.

We would consider the nature that he is observing to be a "post-Fall" nature, whatever that chronology might mean. Does his quote leave open the prospect that perhaps there are other standpoints from which nature is not perfect? Not that they would be illogical or unreasonable, but perhaps a spiritual perspective?

Randy
Received on Fri Jan 28 01:35:04 2005