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Philosphy: What Are Your Beliefs/ideology?


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this is my philosophy.

 

The underlying worldview on which this classical notion of god was founded has been dramatically altered in the age of reason and science and yet the classical conception is still the dominant portrayal of god in established western religions.

 

In the old world view-

- the earth was young

- The species were fixed and specially created

- The earth was the center of the universe

- Man was the crown and purpose of creation.

- The universe was 3 story, heaven, earth and underworld

- Natural events were unexplainable mysteries

 

In the new world view

- the earth is ancient 4.5 billion yrs and the universe 14 billion years

- species are not fixed and mass extinctions and emergence of new species occurs

- the earth is an ordinary planet around an ordinary star in no special location

- Man is just another and recent species who recently appeared and evolved from lower primates

- The universe is unimaginably vast and there is no location for heaven or hell

- Nature is perceived as operating according to fixed immutable laws and revealed religion and supernatural intervention are largely rejected.

 

I am interested in altered conceptions of god which do not conflict with the modern worldview. I am primarily interested in philosophical conceptions of god from people who still allow for theism as a rational possibility. Is it possible to formulate a rational philosophical conception of god which does not conflict with experience, reason and science? Remember speculations do not have to be confirmed or even confirmable by science to remain possibilities. This is god as a philosophical speculation or conception not god as a scientific hypothesis.

 

As a start: I will suggest that god acts through nature and natural process. That nature is inherently self organizing and that order, complexity, life, mind and experience have emerged as part of a divine purpose or divine plan. God is not all powerful but very powerful. The primary divine value is creativity, to bring value from the primordial chaos and the formless void. Creation is an ongoing process not a completed act.

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