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I agree with this.=Cypress;4053904 Christian existentialists like Kierkegaard considered God radically transcendent and beyond human ability to know or rationalise. From that perspective, every religion is just presenting a different face of God. "God" could literally be a human construct for any creative force beyond our comprehension.
Maybe 'why' doesn't enter into the equation? (Like, why did Dinosaurs roam the Earth for 200 million years?)I think Steven Hawking is asking the wrong question. Science is very good at reasoning "how" things happen. But it is not really intended to answer "why" things happen
Jack (11-19-2020)
Mechanistic explanations for how things happen is important, but to many of the greatest philisophers and intellects in western history, it is does not provide true knowlege of ultimate reality.
I understand mechanistically that a quantuum singularity may have resulted in the universe we observe. The "why?" question is what has occupied natural philosophers and the naturally inquisitive
I do not have a link, but these are my notes from a class on Greek philosophy I took.
It was Xenophanes of Miletus I was thinking of, a 6th century BCE pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher.
Xenophanes was a religious thinker. He offered a fundamental critique of Greek polytheism. Instead of many gods, he believed that “god is one.”
1. Xenophanes’s god was able to move all things by his mind alone. But this god itself does not move.
2. For Xenophanes, god is the archê; god is Being.
Souce credit: Professor Daniel Roochnik, Boston University
Thanks. I actually know Roochnik, he was a professor at mine at Penn State.
Here is a quotation attributed to Xenophanes: "But without toil he sways all things by the thought of his mind.
He always remains in the same place, without moving at all; nor does it suit him to go about here or there." https://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/cl...esocratics.htm
Aristotle considers God to be the cause of all motion. But God is not the cause of the physical universe.
Exactly. Maybe reality is nothing but a subatomic collection fermions, hadrons, and bosons and there is no deeper reality than that.
On the flip side, we have pretty good mathematical equations which mechanistically describe how space, time, energy, matter are all interrelated, interchangeable. But a lot of people think it is interesting to ask why it should be like that.
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