". . . In today's scientific world, sometimes we need to be reminded that it is O.K. to generalize and speak according to common sense, to look at the forest and see more than just individual trees. It is O.K. to talk still about sunrise and sunset, instead of describing the earth rotating on its axis, in describing when you will wake up or when the picnic will end. We do not need to know the measurement or movement of quarks to act with a moral compass. One way or the other, what is random at a micro or quantum level is certainly making possible freedom at a macro and human level. We understand the difference between external movements caused by physics and internal movements caused by life forces; that some material things, like rocks, are moved by physics while animals are moved by biology and internal desire.
"What exists even at a level random and relative to us has a cause for its existence, since the random is not the cause of its own existence. Certainly, something always existed and makes the random, motion, and the contingent even possible; makes experience possible and self-consciousness possible. This means that the cause of existence (and the goodness of existence) has even 'the random' within its eternal boundaries. Purpose and contingency flow within the bounds of Providence and Eternity. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Dr. Matthew Tsakanikas, Chair of the Department of Theology, Christendom College, reflected on the human mind (made to recognize "true goodness and channel goodness into the development of the individual, natures, and the development of the world"), ecology, and the founding of the United States (with particular attention to the Declaration of Independence).
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Homiletic & Pastoral Review: Cultivating Time for Eternity (28 AUG 20)
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