Thursday, March 03, 2005

reaction to reading r c sproul's not a chance: the myth of chance in modern science and cosmology

Genesis 1:2 tell us that our world was created tovu vavohu, often translated as 'formless and void.' Tovu vavohu is chaos. This description is followed by the accounts of the ordering our world. Religion constantly celebrates this order. It is beautiful and awesome and it is incomplete. Genesis tells us that the world was created and it was created in chaos. And there is a reason it was created so, and not created ordered. For chaos is the mechanism of creation. It is chaos that keeps the board dynamic in the game of evolution. It is a one-dimensional cross-section of chaos that is glimpsed in the workings of quantum mechanics. It is in the troubled union of chaos and order that we can justify our existence.

Yes, we live in an ordered world. But the order rests and relies on an ever-changing, infinite backdrop which is completely tovu vavohu

1 Comments:

Blogger Miss Kate said...

hooo! I betcha can't wait till the person who gave you that book is sleeping in your house. I wonder, we're not gonna talk about bloggin while they're here, are we?

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