Niels Gregersen - Is the World Self-Organizing? 

I cannot even organize the glove compartment in my car.

might laws and constants of physical nature come from causation, time more than space?

Yes in a Conway's Game of Life kinda way

When I want to learn about how to cook, I ask a cook. When I want to learn about the cosmos, I ask a cosmologist. Neither a theologist nor a philosopher.

1:12. He is arguing for a deistic definition of God here, not a theistic definition. In my opinion most believers wouldn't think of a deistic God as the God they have in mind.

Rube-Goldberg machines of our complexity don't happen by accident. The key issue, dicriminating what I understand as theism vs. atheism, is whether a prior sentience was needed to get there. But even if no prior sentience was required (e.g., naturalism assumes this, imo), undoubtedly the universe "cares" for us in the sense of providing the causal infrastructure to get there. If atheism is true, in the sense of no prior sentience, a functional sense of "caring" doesn't require a functional sense of "sentience". Weird, huh?

2:50. "...nurtures the universe...." Miracles? Some kind of intervention? What about the devilish intervention? Isn't the devil a part of the religious world view?

'Is the world self organizing?' Is that the same as 'Is the world natural?' To say that the world is not self-organizing would be to say what in positive terms? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

It seems obvious to me that any conception of God as the source of everything that is, begs the obvious question about the origin of God and, therefore, makes the idea of God as the beginning of everything profoundly unsatisfactory.

“God” existed before the universe, if “God” is defined as the state that allowed for the eventual universe. The universe is defined by its ability to evolve and self-organize to the state it is in today, because of the fundamental parameters of the universe. Perhaps the universe is the product of the intention and mind of God. Perhaps it is how “God” experiences itself - through creation and our experience - and the experience of other sentient creatures on Earth and elsewhere.

The world is a fallen world where there is good and evil, pain, temptation, sin etc. according to Bible this world isn't a perfect world. Also because there is free will God has designed our reality so that it is both possible to believe in Him as well as not believe in Him, hence a reality that might in appearance not seem to require God.

"Is the World Self-Organizing?" This World is organizing and reorganizing itself driven by the natural laws designed by our Divine Creator to maintain its order and balance... ..and the creation of these naturals laws relied on how our Creator gathered, arranged, organized, and fused spirits from His Spiritual World to form all elementary particles of matter... Details of this knowledge is a forbidden fruit for satan & followers not to discover... .. however, our free aware immortal souls were not created but splits of the Holy Spirit. Only our human vessels belong to the physical world designed by God.

No it’s not

Self-organizing that is a nice way of putting it. We might think now we are organizing ourselves but it is still the universe doing its thing since we are unconscious driven by design...

I've been thinking this since the 80s🤷‍♂️

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The world is trash

Look at all the comments that aren't showing up. ... Obviously, RU-vid isn't self-organizing.

Buddha has revealed the way out and through the bottle neck. Superimpositions, ideas, beliefs, preferences, bias, identifications, all obstacles. Any kind of favoritism or bias, is but a notion and limiting factor. Science vs religion or metaphysics vs physics or christianity vs islam or liberalism vs conservative or identifying with anything, be it name and form or even the body - what truth is there in any such notions of these dualities other than condition, therefore a mental disposition - going to base your Truth concerning 'ALL THIS' from a relative and trite perspective? That doesn't seem scientific. You can't see God but what you do see is what exactly....science? Do you see science? How does one denominate ALL OF THIS anyways? God is an appellation no different than doctor other than the lofty degree it's designation represents. It seems the only persons who deny God are those whose idea of the Divine is but the notion of a man hiding up in the clouds. Even those who think the prediction of a multiverse now cancels out God, is a sentiment most worthy of repudiation even in the person claiming it. God is such a tricky topic here in the animal kingdom. The wise man acknowledged 'the one' as beyond being, essence, the intelligibles, that no mind or intelligence can grasp, and is the ultimate cause of all things, and this is a fact that 'the one' can not participate in anything, therefore exempt, but all participate in the 'good', and no diminution ever occurs in 'the good' or else none of this could have even been, be, or become. An over flowing fountain within itself, from itself, by itself, pre exists all things, extends to all things giving all nutriment and subsistence, and always exempt and impervious. God is important because only true realization therein does deiform arise. We aren't making the rules up here, or the laws, although there are men today who do hanker in 'lording it over' all things. We can go downstream, or we can go upstream to the source. Who dares say there is no soruce abode of a river? Who dares say there is no soul because you can't touch it? Who would claim that truth, justice, virtue, essence, harmony, law, revolution, the very universals, who would say these are mere contingents? The Divine is important for our deiform, our realization from whence we come and where we go. For acknowledging the principles and universals and not for our own selfish gain, but for our fellow man, nature, animal, and for all life, to become one with the universals revolution - the procession is the reversion. Not for my own sake do i acknowledge God, but for your's. Some muslims want to be right about Allah being the true God; Christians want to be right about YHWH as the true God. They worship only an idea of God and not truly the Divine. They have vested interests. Some just can't acknowledge or engage in God, and so the Sun has always been the great symbol of. Everything you have is by the Sun. But still, God is just such a silly notion. I guess vanity in some completely hijack their own GOD-given intellects, they can't even see what the intellect is even if it were steering them in their faces. The brilliant splendor of the Sun, the very spiritual essence of God, is too, in man. There is a light in man. Religion is so silly though - but is it really religion, or is religion merely a medium that reveals the fallen nature of man! Yes, that's right. We see the same contention over sports, soccer, and even politics, and race. I guess, calling all this, or denominating ALL OF THIS as science isn't so bad, comparing with religion, as this does reckon Reason but to only a sensual limited degree and transforms men into folly materialists. All of this for me is magic. Whenever a new breakthrough there is in a science, for me it's miracles brought to fruition; these universal formulas there awaiting, and by the intellect, to reveal it. This is all a miracle.