Help Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea 100 + XXIII (Intelligent Design, Xd)
In this blog, I close my discussion of Gottfried Leibniz’s work on God’s Intelligent Design. Here, I discuss how Leibniz’s true atoms are organized and form a single universe.
This organizing method has a deep history in ancient Greece. Anaxagoras (500 BC-428 BC) gave it meaning with the statement ‘each thing in each thing.’ Jesus Christ uses this statement in John 14:20 where he says ‘ . . . ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.’ In his book ‘On Learned Ignorance,’ Nicholas of Cusa speaks of Anaxagoras’ statement in Book II, Ch. 5. Cusa says ‘God is in all things in such way that all things are in Hin.’ Further in the Preface to Second Edition of his book on ‘Critique of Pure Reason,’ Immanuel Kant says, ‘...in an organized body, every member exists for every other, and for the sake of each.’ Leibniz follows this organizing method. So, each true atom is in all other true atoms in a way so that all true atom form a single organization.
What did the word ‘in’ mean to these personalities? The Greeks and Jesus did not view things as containers, as we say that a glass can contain water. To all of these personalities, things were viewed as ‘things-in-themselves.’ So, things do not exist in other things.
The togetherness of different things was not solved until (1) the word ‘relation’ appeared, (2) scientists found that relations are not physical things, and (3) ‘functional relations’ could be studied with the infinitesimal calculus of Leibniz. Thus, Leibniz’s true atoms thus form a single universe if they become functionally related. Obviously, these functional relations form a very complex universe. Finding a functional relation is a spiritual tool only of human minds.
To understand this complex universe, Leibniz says that some true atoms are dominating. Here, we see the origin of all genera, species, and things. Further, some true atoms will perceive clearly. But the perception of other true atoms is confused. Here, we see the separation of nonliving and living things. Furthermore, since no vacuums will be found in Leibniz’s universe, the universe is a continuum of finite things. And as I say in my book, The First Scientific Proof of God, the origin of all of these finite things must originate in an infinite thing, which I call God.
Today, many physical scientists became atheists because they do not study ‘all finite things.’ Instead, they believe that the universe can be understood only with processes. Today, all biologists believe that all living things originate in a physical process. This is why they promote Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Leibniz would not agree with these physicists and biologists.
This organizing method has a deep history in ancient Greece. Anaxagoras (500 BC-428 BC) gave it meaning with the statement ‘each thing in each thing.’ Jesus Christ uses this statement in John 14:20 where he says ‘ . . . ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.’ In his book ‘On Learned Ignorance,’ Nicholas of Cusa speaks of Anaxagoras’ statement in Book II, Ch. 5. Cusa says ‘God is in all things in such way that all things are in Hin.’ Further in the Preface to Second Edition of his book on ‘Critique of Pure Reason,’ Immanuel Kant says, ‘...in an organized body, every member exists for every other, and for the sake of each.’ Leibniz follows this organizing method. So, each true atom is in all other true atoms in a way so that all true atom form a single organization.
What did the word ‘in’ mean to these personalities? The Greeks and Jesus did not view things as containers, as we say that a glass can contain water. To all of these personalities, things were viewed as ‘things-in-themselves.’ So, things do not exist in other things.
The togetherness of different things was not solved until (1) the word ‘relation’ appeared, (2) scientists found that relations are not physical things, and (3) ‘functional relations’ could be studied with the infinitesimal calculus of Leibniz. Thus, Leibniz’s true atoms thus form a single universe if they become functionally related. Obviously, these functional relations form a very complex universe. Finding a functional relation is a spiritual tool only of human minds.
To understand this complex universe, Leibniz says that some true atoms are dominating. Here, we see the origin of all genera, species, and things. Further, some true atoms will perceive clearly. But the perception of other true atoms is confused. Here, we see the separation of nonliving and living things. Furthermore, since no vacuums will be found in Leibniz’s universe, the universe is a continuum of finite things. And as I say in my book, The First Scientific Proof of God, the origin of all of these finite things must originate in an infinite thing, which I call God.
Today, many physical scientists became atheists because they do not study ‘all finite things.’ Instead, they believe that the universe can be understood only with processes. Today, all biologists believe that all living things originate in a physical process. This is why they promote Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Leibniz would not agree with these physicists and biologists.
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