tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post6432407174813894136..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: Why Incarnation is Essential: Incarnation, take #2Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-10267933284056331332016-01-03T13:04:02.163-05:002016-01-03T13:04:02.163-05:00If you have a naturalistic view of the universe, w...If you have a naturalistic view of the universe, which I think you do, even if it is one that is 'self-aware' because we are self-aware, then you might well speculate, even be assured, that this has some ongoing creative source. But if it is naturalistic, then we humans are evolved, and evolved because the dinosaurs were not, and given the extent and complexity of this evolved order, I cannot understand how a single evolved human being on this edge planet is going to embody God, when one only has to look at the fractal like trees, coastlines, colours, mathematics and so on. How on earth, or anywhere else, does a single human being, and one of strange supernatural end-time views and unaware of so much since learnt, is God incarnate? Only dogma can tell you that, to force a conclusion. I far rather think that evolution is an example of chaos, and that what is remarkable, even as a kind of deity in it, is how localised chaos hangs together in the larger sphere as systems, and how so much can be described in simple 'beautiful' equations. But what cannot be derived is that all of this resides also in one human being, about whom history can give us only limited insight.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.com