Re: [asa] An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong

This caught my eye as well. Actually, I like it. It seems to be
articulating the perspective that God may well be more actively
interested in the activities, relationships, and nature of the spiritual
aspect of our existence than to spend any more effort than required to
set Creation into motion in such a way as to serve as a competen,t
active, developing background for His real primary interest. WE make a
big deal of the physical Creation (which I highly respect, and think we
ought to understand and honor). We think it is so important that its
created character might require God's continuous, or at least
intermittant, husbanding in order for it to proceed on its desired
trajectory. But honestly, does not Scripture really deal more
importantly with the non-physical aspects of our existence? If one
follows that track to its sorta obvious conclusion, God doesn't need to
have a job of this physical-Creation-husbanding sort, ergo is
superfluous in that regard. But that certainly does not put Him out of a
job. It just relegates the physical Creation, with its perhaps
methodological naturalism, to the background of existence and relationship.
Or so it seemeth to me. . . . today! JimA

Terry M. Gray wrote:

>
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Pim van Meurs wrote:
>
>> Note that God being superfluous is not necessarily an argument
>> against God.
>
>
> This is actually a very interesting sentence. Are you meaning
> "superfluous with respect to our scientific theorizing?" In other
> words, this is just a way of talking about methodological naturalism.
>
> I'm fairly certain that both Dawkins and Hauser would resist your
> sympathies with belief in God, even if you distance yourself from
> including God in your theorizing. This seems to be the gist of the
> Wired piece--not only do these new atheists not believe in God they
> think that belief in God is harmful and needs to be resisted.
>
> TG
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