tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5576985008275511255.post7872729554837564367..comments2024-03-24T12:20:39.636-04:00Comments on Lindsay's Logic: The Purpose of ChildrenLindsay Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094965953749825163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5576985008275511255.post-76866564866392464082020-03-29T17:52:17.949-04:002020-03-29T17:52:17.949-04:00The encompassing maximum information on Divine des...The encompassing maximum information on Divine design in Genesis 1 is that by way of the specifically human cognitive capacity for open ended recursion on that same completed cosmos: <br /><br />1. The general Heaven and is special Earth; <br /> 2. The Earth and its special abiding maximal abundance of liquid water; <br /> 3. That water and its special cycle; <br /> 4. The water cycle and its special beneficiary and member, life: <br /> 5. Life and its special category, animal life (plant/animal/mineral = animal); <br /> 6. Animal life and its special category, human life; <br />...7. A man and his wife. <br /><br />If there is one best way of showing the nature of the relation between marriage and the whole Creation and Creation Week, it seems this sevenfold cosmic coherence is it. This coherence may lack any cultural affirmation today, even in the Calendar Day creation community. It also seems it was unknown to any historically influential person of the last two millenia.<br /><br />But this sevenfold coherence is noticed by the most life affirming, most purely childlike, view both of the cosmos and of Genesis 1. And, in the original Creation, every animal life form was far more robustly alive than are any of them now. Humans, too, were not afflicted with poor circulation, either that defined against the 'good circulation' of today or that defined as the 'good circulation' of today. Therefore, human neurocognition was orders better than that of any human today. Consequently, many things that we today fail to notice at all of how things cohere was taken, then, as too obvious to need outright mention. Thus, many of the outright mentions of things were given mention not as a way of informing the clueless, but as a way of celebrating the wonders that were commonly obvious. There was no state of cluelessness as to the most important created things in terms of which the cosmos coheres. God designed fully functioning human adults, not yet-to-be-programmed robots or four day old infants.<br /><br />Moreover, this sevenfold set is found by way of the sole prime function of creaturely life, and this of the specifically human cognitive capacity to expound that function for all cosmology. That function is that of the natural organism's self interest, by taking a general concern, and pursuing its own most special interests within that general concern. A songbird cannot spontaneously produce a sonic version of such recursive structure, but a human can, and does. We must not simply repeat what Genesis 1 spells out. If we do only that, then we become, for the account, no better than a songbird when the bird stops hearing paradigmatically human musical structures. As Longhenry (2013) points out, God's very being is nothing less than that of a personal relationship, so His Creation is going to reflect that.<br /><br />Longhenry, E. R. (2013): God's Divinity in Creation: Romans 1:20. The Expository Files July 20.7. https://www.bible.ca/ef/expository-romans-1-20.htm. https://www.bible.ca/ef/ef-index-2013.htm.<br />Daniel Pechhttps://independent.academia.edu/DPechnoreply@blogger.com