Before the emergence of the Zeus and company, there was Chronos (wikipedia) Chronos means time. The essence of Chronos is that given enough time, everything will happen ( possibly repeatedly). This is a principle that underlies any theory of origin, any cosmology, that does not include a Creator.
The Hebrew deity's primary, ineffable, appellation is a contraction of past, present and future. Some translate it as The Eternal. It is a summary of all time. It expresses the idea of Chronos.
The ancients, who did not know L'Hospital's rule, intuited that given infinite time, something would happen.
Implicit in a Creatorless cosmology is another gd, the cruel gd of selection. This is the entity that insures that events end up as they are now. Greek mythology personifies this principle in Ananke or Moirai ( the Fates). Science calls it Natural Selection.
Even the selection of this Cosmogony has a large element of selection. It is the story that survives because it is related to a body of thought that survived: science. The relationship between survival and truth is not obvious, in either direction. One would expect truth to survive, but history attests to the longevity of some erroneous ideas. Imposing the property of longevity on truth eliminates many truths.
The Hebrew deity that corresponds to Selection is less clear ( particularly after the Holocaust). E is a good candidate. I think that E means the most powerful force imaginable. That is why Gentiles add the definite article.
The Hebrew deity's primary, ineffable, appellation is a contraction of past, present and future. Some translate it as The Eternal. It is a summary of all time. It expresses the idea of Chronos.
The ancients, who did not know L'Hospital's rule, intuited that given infinite time, something would happen.
Implicit in a Creatorless cosmology is another gd, the cruel gd of selection. This is the entity that insures that events end up as they are now. Greek mythology personifies this principle in Ananke or Moirai ( the Fates). Science calls it Natural Selection.
Even the selection of this Cosmogony has a large element of selection. It is the story that survives because it is related to a body of thought that survived: science. The relationship between survival and truth is not obvious, in either direction. One would expect truth to survive, but history attests to the longevity of some erroneous ideas. Imposing the property of longevity on truth eliminates many truths.
The Hebrew deity that corresponds to Selection is less clear ( particularly after the Holocaust). E is a good candidate. I think that E means the most powerful force imaginable. That is why Gentiles add the definite article.
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