There is a saying that "there is nothing new under the sun". I'm not certain of the meaning of this but it sounds like it says that everything that exists was always here. For example, when an explorer "discovered" a new place, it had always been there before it was discovered. It did not owe its existence to the discovery. IF A THING IS DISCOVERABLE , IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN IN EXISTENCE BEFORE IT WAS DISCOVERED.
Some philosophers have discussed this and similar viewpoints in the past. The gist of the belief is that every idea, discovery or invention existed before we knew about it. Those who had the idea, made the discovery or produced the invention did not cause these to exist.. When scientists proposed the periodic table of elements and defined their properties then discovered how they interacted, the elements did not begin to exist because of their discovery but existed before their discovery and interacted without anyone knowing it.
The point of this exercise is to show how many of us marvel at the the intelligence of men and women who do think deep thoughts, discover things about the universe and invent things from knowledge accumulated over years of effort and discovery, yet fail to acknowledge that these wonders which are discovered have always been there for us to discover and that they could not have come into existence through discovery or by some random, chaotic action but were put in place by some "intelligence". Those scientists who are not believers in creation, are declaring that their acts of "discovery" supersede the importance of the things to be discovered and their origins. If it requires intelligence to extract these universal truths, they themselves must be the product of an "intelligence".
"Invention" uses things which have been discovered in a way that they do not appear in a natural way. The potential for the things discovered to be used in this way was always inherent in these things.
Some philosophers have discussed this and similar viewpoints in the past. The gist of the belief is that every idea, discovery or invention existed before we knew about it. Those who had the idea, made the discovery or produced the invention did not cause these to exist.. When scientists proposed the periodic table of elements and defined their properties then discovered how they interacted, the elements did not begin to exist because of their discovery but existed before their discovery and interacted without anyone knowing it.
The point of this exercise is to show how many of us marvel at the the intelligence of men and women who do think deep thoughts, discover things about the universe and invent things from knowledge accumulated over years of effort and discovery, yet fail to acknowledge that these wonders which are discovered have always been there for us to discover and that they could not have come into existence through discovery or by some random, chaotic action but were put in place by some "intelligence". Those scientists who are not believers in creation, are declaring that their acts of "discovery" supersede the importance of the things to be discovered and their origins. If it requires intelligence to extract these universal truths, they themselves must be the product of an "intelligence".
"Invention" uses things which have been discovered in a way that they do not appear in a natural way. The potential for the things discovered to be used in this way was always inherent in these things.
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