tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post114788085394170398..comments2024-01-06T05:34:00.027-06:00Comments on Blog Meridian: Thinking about God in a Darwinian cosmosJohn B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-1147977138220345452006-05-18T13:32:00.000-05:002006-05-18T13:32:00.000-05:00An excellent post--very interesting and insightful...An excellent post--very interesting and insightful. I am Buddhist, and so it is always interesting to me to learn how people of a different faith work out the tensions between competing beliefs.Belle Lettrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00948539085041854442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-1147908314523719702006-05-17T18:25:00.000-05:002006-05-17T18:25:00.000-05:00Thanks for the explanation. It's fairly obvious w...Thanks for the explanation. It's fairly obvious why evolution doesn't quite gel with creationism (the imago dei problem), but I'm still not exactly sure what the problem with entropy is. I mean, whichever eschaton you happen to agree with, the world is nevertheless tending inexorably towards it, no? So what's stopping God from, like, resetting the world in a non-entropic model after the day ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-1147893029303904392006-05-17T14:10:00.000-05:002006-05-17T14:10:00.000-05:00Firstly, it depends on which Christian eschatology...Firstly, it depends on which Christian eschatology you affirm (there are a number of perspectives).<BR/><BR/>One of the particular issue at hand is a "static view" of man as the image of God, that is to say the image of God as <I>nature.</I> Nature, or essence, as a static entity seems to be incommensurable with Darwinian evolutionary theory.<BR/><BR/>The question, for the Christian, becomes whatAndrew Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14566187471298904513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-1147892082654334862006-05-17T13:54:00.000-05:002006-05-17T13:54:00.000-05:00I confess I'm not really up on this whole debate, ...I confess I'm not really up on this whole debate, but I don't really see the problem with a universe tending towards entropy in creationist terms. The whole point of God, surely, is that He is outside time and the world He created. Besides, how is entropy incommensurable with standard Christian eschatology? It seems like this insistence that the universe slowly going to pot goes against the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com