Joe carter wrote In the Beginning was Nothing: A Creation Story for Young Materialists. It’s an amusing story, but I can’t see how actors like “Time” and “Chance” in his story are distinguishable from “God” in the conventional creation story.
Although it’s not as entertaining, I think the materialist story of the origin (not creation) is something like:
In the beginning there was a small, hot, dense lump, though there was no one around to observe it. For reasons that are unknown, it started expanding and cooling. As it cooled, hydrogen atoms formed and coalesced into stars. Some stars exploded, producing heavier elements. Eventually some of those supernova remnants formed planets.
Although the laws of thermodynamics require that the overall entropy of a closed system (such as the universe) to increase over time, localized decreases can and do occur. On at least one planet, this led to a progression of increasingly complex self-replicating organisms. Eventually a species of such organisms appeared which exhibited self-awareness, and questioned the origin of the universe.
Some members of this species invented the concept of an all-powerful entity which created the universe, but others observed that there was no physical evidence of the existence of such an entity.
In the beginning was nothing…
Joe carter wrote In the Beginning was Nothing: A Creation Story for Young Materialists. It’s an amusing story, but I can’t see how actors like “Time” and “Chance” in his story are distinguishable from “God” in the conventional creation story.
Although it’s not as entertaining, I think the materialist story of the origin (not creation) is something like:
In the beginning there was a small, hot, dense lump, though there was no one around to observe it. For reasons that are unknown, it started expanding and cooling. As it cooled, hydrogen atoms formed and coalesced into stars. Some stars exploded, producing heavier elements. Eventually some of those supernova remnants formed planets.
Although the laws of thermodynamics require that the overall entropy of a closed system (such as the universe) to increase over time, localized decreases can and do occur. On at least one planet, this led to a progression of increasingly complex self-replicating organisms. Eventually a species of such organisms appeared which exhibited self-awareness, and questioned the origin of the universe.
Some members of this species invented the concept of an all-powerful entity which created the universe, but others observed that there was no physical evidence of the existence of such an entity.