C. R. Wiley
It is unclear which was lost first, the cosmos or God. With hindsight it appears they came as a package, lose one and you lose the other.
People still speak of the cosmos, but they either do not know what they are talking about or they mean something very different than what people used to mean when they used that word. The word cosmos means order. It is not as though people have suddenly gone blind to the order all around us. But the conviction has grown that this order came about by a generative out-working of aimless power. We are told that if we just look at things dispassionately we will see that the universe is not designed. Instead we will see that we, along with everything else, are the flotsam and jetsam of a tremendous explosion. The order we perceive, if that is the right word for it, is just a loss of momentum and a balancing of forces following that explosion.
This is now the official story of the universe. As you can see, God does not come into the story at all. God’s apologists have said he is at work behind the scenes, like the director of a film, but when it comes to the story itself even many of these folks admit he does not make a cameo appearance. From the standpoint of the story you can take him or leave him. And from that standpoint many think leaving him off the credits at the end makes perfect sense in light of the story itself.
Obviously this is a departure from the Biblical story of creation. But this is also quite a departure from other accounts of the beginning—the stories that are usually lumped together under the heading “mythology”. Those stories vary a great deal, about as much as civilizations can vary.  » Read More
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