Julian May's characters discuss the same problems:
"The fetus persisted: And the problem of the created minds being imperfect? And sometimes evil?
"'I think that has something to do with advanced chaos theory, which I've never been able to make head or tail of.'"
-Jack The Bodiless, 24, p. 295.
In an uncreated universe, there is both chaos and evil and the two may be related. In a created universe? If the Creator omnipotently creates from nothing everything but Himself, then he can create it to behave any way He wants so none of it should be chaotic to Him. To us, it is chaotic whether a particle turns left or right. However, creating it, He decides whether it turns left or right. If He does not decide this, then He does not create everything other than Himself.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And this is where I have to disagree with you. I believe God created the universe to be good but also allowed evil to come to exist. It all comes down to what one character in THE DOG AND THE WOLF described as "that mystery called free will" (quoting from memory).
Sean
Sean,
And I don't believe that we can have free will in relation to an omnipotent creator (I am not referring to foreknowledge) but my point here is that chaos does not help to explain evil if there is an omnipotent creator.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I know, we have touched on these points at other times. It's a regrettable impasse!
Sean
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