I’m sensing reluctance about the mechanism of creation here, if I may say so.
Glad you said so. Generally speaking, not addressing one’s assumptions leads not only to greater misunderstandings, but keeps us in ignorance.
It’s odd to speak of a mechanism of creation. It’s sounds like an oxymoron, you know - jumbo shrimp, clearly confused, a plastic glass, the only choice - the latter example addressing the creative capacity of free will. I can think of no mechanism there; any would make it not free.
we still have nothing from Aloysium
The royal we may not have understood Aloysium; I most definitely feel like I wrote a lot. What comes to mind is an old saying about keys lost in the dark, and the seeker searching for them under the lamp post because that is where there is light. Whether or not we can envision something does not determine its reality, sometimes we need to extend our vision and, with humility acknowledge the limits of our knowledge and ask, He who grants that capacity to fill us.
I would be only speculating were I to envision how the stone moved from the entrance of the tomb, how Jesus was raised from the dead, how He entered a closed room, or how water turned into wine. I can’t envision what happens to me after death; purgatory, heaven and hell require a different sort of “envisioning”. But even with respect to the physical, my envisioning of the Big Bang, the universe as plasma, subatomic and atomic particles is an educated illusion. I was there, but trying to envision my conception actually blows my mind, since it involves everything I know about everything.
Evolutionists think that the first elephants were born, in a manner not dissimilar from the way they are born today, from parents who looked very similar to their offspring.
I don’t think you are surprised to know that I am able to envision that too. However, when I try to envision dust coming together of its own accord to form the first cell, a later version of that cell somehow growing a nucleus, errors in genetic information leading to the development of cillia, and later the specialization of single cells to come together as multicellular organisms, the advent and development of psychology, and ultimately a creature with an eternal, rational spirit, all this the result of random molecular changes, it all sounds like nonsense. Looking at the beauty and diversity of life, and envisioning that it has all come about solely because those creatures spontaneously came into being and survived, doesn’t satisfy my need to find a simple final truth; it is simplistic and revealing only of intellectual blinkers.
I think this is a question you must answer for yourself. Were I to express my vision, which is speculation, it would just confuse.
