No matter how you slice it, a purely mechanistic view of this world will produce hopeless, unimaginable, cruelty and brutality in a struggle(s) for domination.
For what difference would cruelty and brutality make?
Despite the brains that say otherwise, design is obvious even to the unbeliever. Paul says so.
They know.
And for those who have “ears to hear” as 2 sisters are wont to remind, there is entry into the glorious Kingdom of God.
For what difference would cruelty and brutality make?
Despite the brains that say otherwise, design is obvious even to the unbeliever. Paul says so.
They know.
And it is so obvious in biological life that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Or to put it another way, we can break down a rock and rabbit and see that they are made of the same quantum fields - but something was lost along the way that the rabbit passed from life to death. And he cannot be put back together again.
For a rigorous mathematical approach to this very issue, Lurkers should read Rosen's Life Itself
That there was a Creature, a beginning, a cause of causation itself is obvious and everyone will be held responsible for noticing:
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. - Romans 1:18-21