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Al-Bari' emphasizes the act of creation and the perfection and flawlessness of God's creations. The name suggests that Allah's creative process is not only about bringing things into existence but doing so with absolute perfection, devoid of any deformity, mistakes, shortcomings, or incompatibilities. [2]
Khalq (arabic: خلق), which is the Arabic root word for the name of God Al-Khaliq, has three different meanings in the Arabic language: 1- Khalq means bringing something from non-existence into existence, which is believed to be an ability that God alone is capable of.
Each contingent thing will need something other than itself to bring it into existence, which will in turn need another cause to bring it into existence, and so on. [12] Because this seemed to lead to an infinite regress , cosmological arguments before Avicenna concluded that some necessary cause (such as God) is needed to end the infinite ...
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.
Creatio ex nihilo is the doctrine that all matter was created out of nothing by God in an initial or a beginning moment where the cosmos came into existence. [13] [14] The third-century founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus, argued that the cosmos was instead an emanation from God. This view of creation was unacceptable to Early Church Fathers and ...
The educationist David Waddington comments that although the efficient cause, which he identifies as "the craftsman," might be thought the most significant of the four, in his view each of Heidegger's four causes is "equally co-responsible" for producing a craft item, in Heidegger's terms "bringing forth" the thing into existence. Waddington ...
Seeing little sense in a principle requiring intelligent life to emerge while remaining indifferent to the possibility of its eventual extinction, Barrow and Tipler propose the final anthropic principle (FAP): Intelligent information-processing must come into existence in the universe, and, once it comes into existence, it will never die out. [64]
The act of creation is the bringing of order from disorder, and in many of these cultures it is believed that at some point the forces preserving order and form will weaken and the world will once again be engulfed into the abyss. [35] One example is the Genesis creation narrative from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis.