Western concept of God as static, perfectly rational,
immutable, unitary, immortally consistent and knowable is inherited
from the overly-idealistic Greeks, from Plato and before that Pythagoras.
With their brilliant fetish for order and a gift for making sense. But this Platonic ideal has had its splendid multi-millenial run and had run its course. Even thought It gave us mathematics in all its elegance and the beautiful, aspirational dream of a rational universe that was smooth and simple and explicable and could be reduced to a Unified Answer,
With their brilliant fetish for order and a gift for making sense. But this Platonic ideal has had its splendid multi-millenial run and had run its course. Even thought It gave us mathematics in all its elegance and the beautiful, aspirational dream of a rational universe that was smooth and simple and explicable and could be reduced to a Unified Answer,
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