Is nature God's creation, or is God nature's? 93.
This is a very argumentative question. Some people might say that Nature is a way in which God revels himself to humanity. God is Nature. Not in “nature” referring to tree and rocks, but “Nature” referring to the entire system, the universe, in which we live. You could look at Nature as being the invention and God as being the inventor in a way. But this theory also comes from a religious point of view. If you asked an Atheist this question his response would be totally different versus someone of christian faith. It all depends on what perspective your coming from.
When being asked this question i take it in a more literal sense. I think of God as a concept created by humans, and if humans did not exist there would be no mention of a god and it could be argued he does not exist in a world without humans because believing in god requires faith that animals are not capable of. So essentially nature had to come first in order to birth humans who could then birth the concepts of god and an afterlife.
ReplyDelete"Without faith I am nothing," says God, and promptly vanishes in a cloud of logic. Or so I recall Douglas Adams's line in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You got the gist of the question, Patrick.
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