Kristor, over at Orthosphere, has said before that actions have consequences that echo throughout all of creation. Everything you do changes reality from here to the far side of the universe.
A second item helped me grok what that meant more fully. There is a video making its rounds of three scientists discussing how Darwinian evolution is insufficient to explain the rise of new species, particularly the Cambrian explosion. One scientist explained how he doesn’t see how God plays a role in nature, with the world being as horrible as it is. The other responded by saying when he looks at the world, he sees a fallen world, a consequence of our fallen nature.
I was working on the next article in my Beginners Guide to Philosophy series, and a thought struck me.
Imagine our first parents, Adam and Eve. Their action was to eat of the forbidden fruit. The consequences of that action didn’t just affect them, give them the mark of original sin: It affected all of creation.
Sin is inherently disordered. The propensity of the universe to become more disordered is Entropy. Entropy is always increasing. That is another way of saying that nature tends to disorder. Or that nature is fallen.
Original Sin had a consequence across all of creation, that entropy will always increase.
AMDG
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