High ideas about Christian ethics, or integration with
the moral order of the universe, or building the Kingdom of God are all right in their place.
Ignoring
the moral order of the universe has consequences.
Anselm held that
the moral order of the universe could be preserved only by making adequate compensation for sin and that this had been accomplished by Christ, who is God and man.
Not exact matches
Please rationally explain why the Earth is the exact distance it must be from the sun to support life, why the moon is the exact distance from the Earth to sustain life, why the bacterial flagella is so genius, why the energy in a
universe «moving toward
order» is a finite, why we all have a
moral intuition and why «relativism» is self - destructive, how something scientifically came from virtually nothing, why love is self - sacrificing, why procreation is enjoyable instead
of painful, why man is eternally unsatisfied.
As Provine summarized the matter, «The destructive implications
of evolutionary biology extend far beyond the assumptions
of organized religion to a much deeper and more pervasive belief, held by the vast majority
of people, that non-mechanistic organizing designs or forces are somehow responsible for the visible
order of the physical
universe, biological organisms, and human
moral order.»
Of course, moral categories are real forms of order in the universe, and as part of valuation, moral valuation has a basis in the fundamental nature of thing
Of course,
moral categories are real forms
of order in the universe, and as part of valuation, moral valuation has a basis in the fundamental nature of thing
of order in the
universe, and as part
of valuation, moral valuation has a basis in the fundamental nature of thing
of valuation,
moral valuation has a basis in the fundamental nature
of thing
of things.
From our finite standpoint we are tempted to demand that the
universe conform to our «high» standards
of moral order.
It goes hand in hand with what we earlier called the ethical vision with its demands that the
universe correspond to our sense
of moral order.
The movement
of the
universe toward increasingly intense and complex configurations
of physical reality or
moral order does not guarantee that tragedy or periods
of stagnation will not accompany the adventure.
The Divide is WE tv's first scripted series, which takes on the exploration
of personal morality and how all people — especially ambitious people — struggle with the shades
of gray found in the absence
of a simple,
ordered moral universe.
But in putting humans at the centre
of our
moral universe, do we imperil future generations; is a call to «human» rights also an imperious claim against our place in the natural
order?