The Universe Next Door

Purpose of book 1. synopsis basic world cerebrations underlying focal point we in west think well-nigh selves. 2. stick with historic every(prenominal)y how worldviews baffle developed from disruption in theistic worldview, moving in turn into free thought, graphicism, nihilism, existentialism, eastern mysticism, new sense of New age and Islam recent extract from Middle East. 3. show how postmodernism puts a debauch on worldviews 4. encourage us all to think in terms of worldviews with intelligence of non only our own charge of thought but as well that of former(a) bulk, so we kindle first look into and genuinely communicate with others in pluralistic guild. Chapter 1Worldview or vision of heart is simulation or set of fundamental beliefs thru which we view world and our calling and future in it. Vision lack not be fully articulated, whitethorn be so internalized that it goes largely unquestioned. May not be explicitly developed into a self-opinionated concepti on of look sentence. May not be theoretically deepened into a philosophy. whitethorn not take down be codified into creedal form. May be greatly svelte thru cultural historical development. Vision is a channel for ultimate beliefs which give delegacy and meaning to life. Integrative and interpretative modelling by which order and disorder argon judged.Standard by which reality is gentlemanaged and pursued. Set of hinges on which all our everyday thinking and doing turns. Worldview is cargo of heart expressed as floor in set of assumptions true, partially true, or false that we hold consciously and subconsciously and consistently or inconsistently about basic constitution of reality and provides radical on which we live, move, and have our being. Commitment Worldview involves discernment and soul and heart. al-Quran sees as wisdom, emotion, desire, and impart, and intellect. Presuppositions materialisation expressed as a tosh of your life. Assumptions T, PT, F, etc. eality is everyones own detection of world. Foundation on which we lived expressed by words and work ons. We all take roughly position whether we realize it or not, Chapter 2 Clockwork Universe Natualism How did theism get replaced with free thought? shrive thought came about to replace chaos with champion of theological and philosophical explanations. Shift from scriptures to creator or homo intuition (inner light). Started study world form based on matter and how things were put together. Orderly, mechanized, clockwork timing with sodding(a) mechanical precision. Science was born. Middle ages tell toward matinee idol and studying Him to become life-threatening and holy.Theology was born. Some deists Christians some not. To deist god is distant, foreign, alien, and unavailable. 1. Wv? 1 a transcendent graven image as a first originator created macrocosm then left it to candidature on its own. graven image is not infixed not triune, not fully personal, not sover eign over mankind personal business not providential. 2. Wf? 2 merciful beings divinity fudge created is t apieced, be trend it is created as a uniformity of dumbfound and effect in a unlikable system so no miracle is possible. both tampering or interference by matinee idol would be considered as truism His creation is flawed. Locked up in ca custom and effect clockwork world. Humans cannot change. 3. Wv ? human being beings though personal are part of clockwork of universe. free thought scans we are just puppets and no free will. No one has special family with God. 4. Wv? 4human being may or may not have a life beyond their physical existence. Destroyed triune and led to naturalism and nihilism. Warm comfort deald in afterlife cold did not. 5. Wv? 5 thru innate and autonomous human effort and the methods of science, we can not only cognize universe but can hazard at least something of what God is like. domain, this world, is dumb to be in its normal enunci ate it is not fallen or abnormal. deism human solid ground is autonomous and not from God.Learn about God from universe. theisticals believe God revealed Himself in nature but also with His word. Deists God no communicate with man/architect and designer only. 6. Wv? 6 moral philosophy is intuitive or limited to general revelation be begin universe is normal it reveals what is right. Weather disaster is natural events. Deists do not consider human reason or universe itself to be fallen. Normal state. 7. Wv? 7 level is additive for course of the cosmos was determined at creation. Still meaning of the events of history rest to be understood by the application program of human reason other information unearthed and made available to historians. . Cold deists use their own autonomous reason to determine their goal in life, warm deists may reflect on their commitment to a somewhat person God and determine their goal in accordance with what they believe their God would be pleased w ith. unexampled DEISM Sophisticated scientific deism cold deism God is human body of laws of physics. Sophisticated philosophic deism on that point is something out there but is it God? Popular deism belief in a being, military posture, or intelligence. Cold deism God is simply abstract force bringing world into existence. Warm deism God is clearly personal and even friendly. Monotheistic therapeutic deism . God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on earth. 2. God want flock to be sizable nice, and fair to each other, as taught in bible and by most religions, 3. Central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself. 4. God does not need to be particularly involved in ones life except when God is postulate to resolve problem 5. Good people go to heaven when they die. UNSTABLE sharpen 1. Autonomous human reason replaced Bible and tradition as position for way reality was understood. 2. Autonomous human reason replaced bib and t radition as authority for morality. . Deists rejected biblical notion of render and think universe is a s it should be. 4. Universe cannot be reordered, human action is determined. 5. Today find more aspects of deism to question. Chapter 4 Naturalism Deism (God is reduced) connects theism (God exalted) and naturalism (no God at all). BASIC naive realism 1. WV ? 1 Prime reality is matter. discipline exists eternally and is all there is. Cosmos rules. God does not exist. Nothing comes from nothing. Something continuously was and was matter of cosmos itself. 2. Wv ? 2 cosmos exists as a uniformity of exploit and effect in a unlikeable system. 3. Wv ? human beings are complex machines constitution is an interrelation of chemical and physical properties we do not yet fully understand. 4. Wv ? 4 death is extinction of personality and individuality. 5. Wv ? 5 thru our innate and autonomous human reason, including the methods of science, we can know the universe. The cosmos, includin g this world is understood to be in its normal state. 6. WV ? 6 ethics is related only to human beings. Theist God foundation of determine. Naturalist human beings foundation of appreciates. For ethics to matter has to be personality along with consciousness and self-determination.Naturalists say ethics is autonomous and situational and came from human experience, need, and interest. overly say all humans have a sense of moral values that come from culture and growing up in environment. 7. Wv ? 7 history is unidimensional stream of events linked by cause and effect but without an overarching purpose. Natural history begins with origin of universe. 8. Wv ? 8 naturalism itself implies no particular core commitment on the part of any given naturalist. preferably core commitments are adopted unwittingly or chosen by individuals. realness IN PRACTICE SECULAR humanism Humanism says overall attitude human beings are of special value.Emphasis on value of individual person. Term used since Renaissance. naive realism IN PRACTICE MARXISM Scientific socialism. Marx believed human history began with people living in family like tribes. No private property. Individuals identify with community as a whole. engineering developed and division of labor develops and controllers of tools and resources society depends on enables them to exploit others. Class campaign since primitive tribes with classes dominated by those coercive means of production. Classless society will result with less competitive individuals workings for good of all.