Thursday, April 18, 2013

2nd Criticism of Intelligent Design: It is not obvious that Gd is involved in creating us from nothing.

The universe has properties. Some of those properties, the ones that make sense on paper are constrictive. They do not make sense under the most extreme analysis. There are always impurities, and it is impossible to make something completely pure. When we call something pure it is because it has met standards, such that it is pure enough. This is where the Ayn Soph comes in. The Ayn Soph fills the gaps that are generated by Elokim's divine utterances and derivatives of the utterances which make up reality. Elokim is compeletely concealed, which explains why one may see logic or reason is all there is in the universe. We must learn that we do not have all the answers in the most concrete way, that then Elokim, meaning the constrictive aspects of the universe become apparent. Thus, the name Elokim describes that Gd is asociable with logic and reason, while the name Ayn Soph describes the exact opposite aspect of Gd.
What's more we need not believe that we shall run out of ideas due to the name of Gd, which describes Him as infinite creativity.  That name is Yah, and through immitation of His good and upright ways, we may tap into this creativity, in the same way that Aaron drew water from a rock.  Yah means that the Torah and its commentaries will never end, and that our knowledge of the universe will never cease to grow.  So, even though the universe is constricted, as Elokim is a name of Gd, it is also equally expansive as Yah is a name of Gd, and as above it is also equally impossible to purify religion into complete restriction, such as logic and reason, due to the name of Gd that is Ayn Soph. 

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