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Because it's alive.how can an eternal unformed thing create temporal forms?
so the universe is created by magic? the universe creates forms but itself isn't finished forming is it?Magic!
It can't, AFAICT.how can an eternal unformed thing create temporal forms?
the universe isn't eternal and doesn't form things?It can't, AFAICT.
It doesn't seem to be.the universe isn't eternal
Depends what you mean by "form things."and doesn't form things?
seems?It doesn't seem to be.
things that arise from something else. like chemical compounds, like atoms, like humans.Depends what you mean by "form things."
I mean that all signs point to the universe having a beginning a finite amount of time in the past and an end a finite amount of time in the future, but the laws of physics break down within Planck Time of the Big Bang, so there's ~10^-44 s that's unaccounted for.seems?
Ah - I'd say then that the universe is the medium in which things are formed. I don't think I'd say that the universe "forms things" as if it's by the universe's own volition.things that arise from something else. like chemical compounds, like atoms, like humans.
the things that arise in the universe as form and different/contrasted to some other form, having a structure that appears different from some other structure but both exist and were formed in the universe.
I don't see your point.so the universe is created by magic? the universe creates forms but itself isn't finished forming is it?
the only thing permanent is impermanence?
i wasn't speaking of religious per se. that is why the question was posed as it was.I don't see your point.
The religious position is that an eternal, unformed being created the formed universe. How it did this is not explained. "By His will/breath/finger" is neither an explanation nor a mechanism. We're left with action or creation without mechanism, ie: magic.
The universe probably was not created magically. We do not have any evidence that indicates that. All of the evidence that we have points to a natural formation. No creation, no creator, no intent. That bothers some people.i wasn't speaking of religious per se. that is why the question was posed as it was.
so the universe was created magically?
Any way He pleases, because He is infinite and omnipotent. The Bible says He "spoke" creation into existence, along with Christ's special role in the creation, so there may be a clue there. Otherwise, we don't know the specifics.how can an eternal unformed thing create temporal forms?
All the structure we see in nature seems to be the natural consequence of the operation of what we often call the "laws" of nature, by which we mean certain orderly principles*, governing the way things interact.seems?
things that arise from something else. like chemical compounds, like atoms, like humans.
the things that arise in the universe as form and different/contrasted to some other form, having a structure that appears different from some other structure but both exist and were formed in the universe.
i didn't say it was magic, the other poster did. naturally doesn't mean it wasn't created from something because in nature, everything is created from something.The universe probably was not created magically. We do not have any evidence that indicates that. All of the evidence that we have points to a natural formation. No creation, no creator, no intent. That bothers some people.
Do you know of any evidence that it was created by magic?
Any way He pleases, because He is infinite and omnipotent. The Bible says He "spoke" creation into existence, along with Christ's special role in the creation, so there may be a clue there. Otherwise, we don't know the specifics.
I'm a Christian, so I believe God created the universe.does the universe create from itself or from something outside of itself?
that is probably the better answer. the only Absolute is that there are no absolutes.All the structure we see in nature seems to be the natural consequence of the operation of what we often call the "laws" of nature, by which we mean certain orderly principles*, governing the way things interact.
Einstein came close to saying that he thought this underlying order, governing the behaviour of elements of nature, is what we mean when we speak of "God". Nobody knows why there should be such order: it just is.
*The term "laws" is actually a bit suspect since ( a ) most of the "laws" are man-made models to account for the way we see the universe behave and ( b ), no doubt because of this limitation, many of the these "laws" are not always or completely followed.