Article Title：God, freedom, and evil: Perspectives from religion and science
Abstract：
This paper develops analogies concerning the evolution of dissipative structures in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to interpret irrational human behavior in which one finds a lack of correspondence between the invested means and the consequences observed. In an attempt tu positively explain che process of cooperation between the free human person and interacting God, I use philosophical categories of Whitehead's process philosophy in an aesthetic model that opposes composition and performance in a musical symphony. Certainly, the essence of human freedom can be expressed in neither thermodynamical nor aesthetic terms. The models proposed can, however, facilitate our understanding of the mutual relations between God's action in the world and the drama of human free choice of moral evil.
Keywords: freedom; God's action; grace; irrationality; moral evil; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; process theology; Whitehead's philosophy
DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00302
Source：ZYGON
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