Summary of text [comment] page 44<\/p>\n
What did de Chardin say?<\/p>\n
God bends Nothingness in order to create.\u00a0 The very structure of Nothingness means that God can proceed in only one fashion: arranging; unifying little by little, under the attraction of His influence; groping with the interplay of great numbers, a multitude of elements, immense, effectively infinite in number, simple and hardly conscious; eventually yielding more complex forms, arriving at forms capable of reflection.<\/p>\n
[Does that sound like a spontaneous order or what?\u00a0 Tielhard described it like a poet.\u00a0 But Hayek was the one who labeled it. The term, that is. \u201cSpontaneous order\u201d.<\/p>\n
What does de Chardin\u2019s poetry suggest?<\/p>\n
The drama of evolutionary history starts with God and Nothing.\u00a0 Well, maybe God and \u201cthe potential of God of recognizing Himself\u201d.\u00a0 After all, if there is only God, then how did everything get here, if everything here is not somehow the potential inherent in God?\u00a0 I suppose this reflects the essence of the Latin term, “creatio ex nihil<\/i>“.<\/p>\n
What is it about things?\u00a0 Things seem to belong to the category of actuality.\u00a0 But to us, things are clearly not God.\u00a0 This implies that actuality is not of God.<\/p>\n
Things are not God.\u00a0 Things are imbued with God.\u00a0 Is that not a contradiction? How can this be?<\/p>\n
Actuality emerges from possibility.\u00a0 The realm of possibility allows contradictions. \u00a0Contradiction are permitted in the monadic realm of possibility.\u00a0 So the apparent contradiction must be due to the emergence of actuality from possibility.<\/p>\n
“God3<\/sub>” brings “His Own Actuality2<\/sub>” into relation with \u201cthe potential of God to manifest His Own Actuality1<\/sub>\u201d.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of text [comment] page 44 What did de Chardin say? God bends Nothingness in order to create.\u00a0 The very structure of Nothingness means that God can proceed in only one fashion: arranging; unifying little by little, under the attraction of His influence; groping with the interplay of great numbers, a multitude of elements, immense, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n