ears ago I was writing a paper for my religious studies class. At the time I was a questioning Christian. As I struggled for a thesis for my paper, sitting at home next to shelves of my books, I glanced up and zeroed in on two of them, by chance. One was Hans Kung's, Does God Exist? and right beside it was a home improvement manual titled, Fix-it-Yourself. I prefaced my paper with this experience and throughout the rest of it referred to God as "it." Even though my professor was a Christian I received an A for the paper.Dr. Anthony Kelly responds to Paul Davies' The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life. In Dr. Kelly's article, articulated is a God that I had already built in my paper. It is validating to find someone else who shares a vision of God that I've continued to ponder over the years as the only kind of God, if it exists, that would be acceptable to me as it is not interventive and is completely divorced from religion.Resolving the Goldilocks Enigma - An Evidence Based Approach
by Anthony Kelly (Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology, Flinders University) Philica.com
Abstract: "The Goldilocks question [Paul Davies asks: "Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?"] is answerable but neither of the two main answers considered by Paul Davies, the existence of an interventionist “hands-on” God or the existence of a Multiverse, is convincing. The evidence provided by Cosmology and by the process of Emergent Evolution shows the Universe to be a purposeful process involving the self-organisation of Matter and Life and the self-creation of Humanity. The Universe exists for a purpose. The world is humanity’s 'do-it-yourself' kit."
Dr. Anthony Kelly lives in South Australia and holds a BA in Philosophy, Sociology and Theology from Flinders University, did Honours in Philosophy in 1988 and Postgraduate work in Philosophy 1989-95 and in Theology 1996-1998. He was admitted to Doctor of Philosophy in Theology in 1998. He has been a Board Member of the Inter-Church Trade and Industry Mission for years 1973-1977, and its Chairman in 1977-78. Between 1970 and 1982 Dr Kelly was Secretary, then Vice President, and finally President of the SA Industrial Relations Society, and was a member of the Flinders University Council 1981-84.
"I argue that Creation is a process involving a series of Emergent stages. Each new Emergent stage sublates the previous stage in that it incorporates the previous stage but transcends it. The present Human Moral-cultural stage provides a platform for the final Emergent stage. Previous Emergent stages have developed by self-organisation. The final Emergent stage can only develop by human self-creation. Jesus is a proleptic exemplar of the final Emergent stage."
Dr. Kelly's thesis and articles can be read at his website.
Dissertation, The Process of the Cosmos: Philosophical Theology and Cosmology
Lonergan, Metaphysics, and Mythology, pp. 45-58, The Examined Life Journal
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