After reading Nature and God, Wisdom and will, I feel I made a rather interesting connection between two different ideas. I often hear people who practice religion, mostly Christianity, refer to God's "Master Plan". This implies that God has everything planned out already, and that everything that happens in the world has already been predetermined. this section of reading explains that mechanical philosophers believed essentially the same thing, almost as if life is a wind up clock, and as soon as it was made he wound it up and let it go, not to interact with it again.
However, if He has a master plan (given that He truly does exist), then what really is the point of it? I mean, when we make and wind up a watch, we use it to keep track of time, so what could God have intended to do with us and this universe we live in? It can't be to teach us something; if He has a set plan, then we have no real use of what he is trying to teach us, unless of course there is something we need to learn in this life to take with us to the after life. I know it sounds like I'm just rambling, but these are the kinds of thoughts that can make me think for hours and hours on end.
Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago press, 1996
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