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Thanks for these ‘jottings’.

On the Genesis website I am developing a model of understanding God and the world that I am discovering is making a significant impact. Earlier this year I addressed a secular conference of health professionals in which I shared the model, receiving a huge response, with one doctor rising to say it was the most important thing to come out of the conference.

The model for me is rooted in the dual and irreconcilable aspects of experience: that on the one hand we cannot deny the reality of the data delivered by the natural sciences, and on the other, the reality of experiencing grace. What kind of universe do we live in that we experience grace?

The key to the model arises out of the recognition in quantum mechanics that there is no objective place from which we can determine reality – that the universe presents itself to us according to the question we ask of it. The model that emerged was that, if we ask of the universe the physical question, the entire universe presents itself to us physically. If we ask of the universe the grace question, the ENTIRE universe presents itself to us as grace.

I am developing this them more fully on the website.

David

It turns out that Aristotle didn’t call ‘efficient’ the processes in materials (and, we would add, energy) which we now call chemical reactions. These conversions which are the only category of cause acknowledged by Dawkins, Wolpert etc were not accorded a separate name by Ari.

I will argue that Mort’s categories of cause are a substantial advance, comprehending chemistry as Aristotle could not. But the immediate point is that Mort’s Claret Cameo uses the term ‘efficient’ in a way different from Ari’s.