The Way God Works in the Universe
Keywords:
Necessity, Chance, Anthropic Principle, Ontological LeapAbstract
Around 14.5 billion years ago, at the Big Bang, our universe originated. Amidst the myriads of planets in the cosmos, given our current knowledge, only planet earth is capable of harboring intelligent life forms. Life originated out of a primordial soup of essential elements. This event was named as an ontological leap, meaning that life’s essential basic super-complex molecule, the DNA could not have evolved by natural selection and that a Super Intellect should have designed it. The evolution of life into humans (Homosapiens) makes many evolutionary biologists accept the notion that an anthropic principle was built into the fabric of biological evolution. The God of religion is both faithful and loving and the natural gift of the faithful God will be reliability in the operation of creation. The natural gift of a loving God will be independence granted to creation. This is reflected in the fruitful interplay of chance and necessity, flexibility and rigidity in evolving cosmic history.
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