[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

Bob,

The Christian understanding I am familiar with (and I'm not alone) is that an infinite Goodness and Wisdom created the universe out of Love so that what was not would, in various ways, participate that Goodness and Wisdom.  What Christian explanation is your source here?

Stan Ziobro

Bob Zeuschner <rbzeuschner at adelphia.net> wrote:

>SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:
>> Then one is left at least with a possible conclusion that the three (1.  
>> the world was created; 2. the world is eternal; 3. the world is and will 
>> remain the result of an infinite regress, which in some sense is a 
>> subset of the second option here) can neither be proved nor disproved.  
>
>If I may interject a remark, I don't see how the first choice is 
>rational at all.
>As I understand it, the Christian creationist claim is:
>an incomprehensible being,
>using incomprehensible powers,
>for incomprehensible reasons,
>created the universe.
>
>It seems perfectly reasonable to me to consider this a completely 
>unsatisfactory explanation, because it explains nothing.
>Bob
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