Re: What is 'difference'?


William Elliot wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, John Jones wrote:

We have been told, and it seems self-evident, that the created universe
is distinguished from its absence in that it presents 'differences'. The
created universe has lots of different things - not only 'in' it, but
constitutive of it. We know that much.

Obviously the uncreated universe, lacking all faults and deficiencies of
the created universe, demostrates intelligent design.

If the created universe is a manifestation of the spirit of life for
itself, that is unalloyed, non-representational, non-relational, (and,
if you like Lewis' status of 'possible worlds' - actual), independent,
then faults and deficiencies have no place to be established.
This is why the created world comes out of its absence - it retains
independence and non-relation, isolated and not distinguished.

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