Creationist philosophy is the barebone underlaying logic of the religious creation theories, without specific reference to who created what when. Actually creationism has the same logic that is used in common discourse when people talk in terms of choosing things, by religious people, as well as non-religious people.
Creationist philosophy is the best, because unlike any other philosophy it provides full accommodation for “opinion”. Other philosophies, like materialism, are really only suited for “fact”, and “opinion” is then arbitrarily squeezed in somewhere it doesn’t really fit.
I made a little homework project of it on the website:
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So what creationist philosophy does it to divide all reality into 2 parts, creator and creation, where opinion is relevant to the creator category, and fact is relevant to the creation category. So first I will explain the creationist view of “fact” and “opinion”, which is supposed to be the same as the common discourse understanding of these words.
Explanation of “Fact”:
A fact is a copy, a 1 to 1 model of something. A book about the moon containing facts about the moon, is a model of the moon in the form of words, pictures and mathematics.
A fact is forced by evidence, cause and effect. The moon is the cause, the facts about the moon the effect of that cause. What the fact is about forces what the fact is. What the moon consists of forces what facts are in the book about the moon.
The existence of things in imagination is a matter of fact as well, because somebody can model 1 to 1 on paper what is happening in their imagination.
If a proposed fact is not an accurate 1 to 1 corresponding copy, then the proposed fact is false.
Explanation of “Opinion”:
An opinion is formed by choosing about what it is that chooses. For example the opinion “the painting is beautiful”
By spontaneous expression of emotion with free will, a choice is made between the words “beautiful” and “ugly”. Either option is equally correct.
At first both words are in the future as possibilities. The decision is that one of the alternatives in the future is made the present. The word “beautiful” is chosen, therefore the word becomes to be said in the present.
To say the painting is “beautiful” means to say there exists a love for the way the painting looks in the heart. This love is what chose between the words beautiful and ugly.
The existence of this love for the painting is also a matter of opinion. That means the conclusion that the love is not real, is just as well correct as the conclusion that the love is real. In the same way that both conclusions “ugly” and “beautiful” were correct, both conclusions “the love is real”, and “the love is not real”, are correct.
So there are 2 requirements for an opinion in order for it to be valid.
1: The opinion must be chosen.
2: The opinion must about something that chooses.
If a proposed opinion does not meet those requirementes, then the opinion is wrong.
For example if somebody is forced to say the painting is beautiful, that he or she doesn’t have the possibility of choosing the word ugly, then it is not really an opinion, because it is not chosen.
Explanation of Creationism:
How fact and opinion fit together in 1 conceptual scheme.
There are two categories in creationism, creator and creation.
Category 1: Creator
What is in this category chooses.
The existence of all what is in this category is a matter of opinion.
An opinion is formed by choosing, expression of emotion with free will.
Also called spiritual domain.
For example; emotions like love and hate, the soul, God, good and evil.
Category 2: Creation
What is in this category is chosen.
The existence of all that is in this category is a matter of fact.
A fact is obtained by evidence forcing to produce a 1 to 1 model of what is evidenced.
Also called universe, or material domain.
For example; planets and stars, organisms, fantasyfigures, mathematics, language.
What follows are some practical examples on how to apply the information in the table above.
Example 1:
The planet Venus
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One can see the planet, one can make a 1 to 1 model of it, therefore the existence of it is a fact.
The planet Venus is chosen. That means at one time there were the possibilities in the future that the planet would be, and that the planet would not be. The decision turned out that the planet Venus came to be.
Maybe there were a lot of independent decisions by which the planet was created, maybe it was just one or a few decisions. The decisions could have turned out differently, then there would have been something else.
Who made the decisions turn out the way they did, the answer to this question can only be given by choosing the answer. That means that there are at least 2 valid answers to the question, because someone needs at least two possibilities to be able to choose.
Example 2:
Love
One cannot see or measure love, one cannot make a 1 to 1 model of it.
Love chooses, for example love chooses that people marry. There are the possibilities to marry and not to marry in the future, and love took care of it that the possibility marriage was made the present.
The existence of love is a matter of opinion. If the married couple really love each other, they cannot even know it themselves as fact. They can only express their emotions about it with free will. Maybe they choose the words that they love each other. They can jump and hop about with the corners of their mouths turned upwards, it still doesn’t prove as fact that their love is real. But maybe that would influence the opinion that their love is real.
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What is in the spiritual domain chooses what comes to be in the material domain. Making a choice is the mechanism of creation. What exists in the material domain is a matter of fact, what is in the spiritual domain is a matter of opinion. One obtains a fact by copying from the material domain forced by evidence, one forms an opinion by choosing about what is in the spiritual domain in freedom.
Creation science:
The science about how things are chosen in the universe (also called intelligent design theory) is still not meaningfully developed. But there are already some global outlines on how it works.
Mathematics is the the theory of everything in the material domain.
Mathematics is ordered on the basis of the zero. Creati ex nihilo, and, ex nihilo, nihil fit. Creation from nothing and from nothing comes nothing. That means that the totality of the universe can only be 0. For example the principle “an action has an equal and opposite reaction”. That results in a totality of 0.
Objects in the universe consist of the laws of nature, in stead of that objects “follow” the laws of nature. As laws unto themselves it can be mathematically established that objects have freedom
The mathematical ordering of the physical universe is the same as the mathematical ordering of the DNA system. What that means is that the DNA system is a world in it’s own right, similar to how human imagination and a 3D computergame are worlds in their own right. In principle there could be all sorts of things in the DNA world of a human being, like plants, the moon and sun, the opposite sex. In this DNA world the form of the organism is chosen, and this chosen form in the DNA world serves as guidance for development of the physical organism to adulthood.
For the sake of clarity, following are some definitions of terms used.
Definitions
Choice / decision = To make an alternative future the present, or, to make a possibility, which is in the future, the present, or not.
Spirit / agency = That which makes a decision turn out the way it does.
Subjectivity = To choose about what it is that chooses, resulting in an opinion on what it is.
Objectivity = To make a model of something forced by evidence, resulting in a fact.
Having issues understanding creationist philosophy:
If you read this posting and you are basically drawing a complete blank on understanding what is written, then the issue you are having in understanding it is very, very, probably caused by the definition of the word decision that you are using.
Everywhere in society the message is hammered home to do your best. Whether it is government, school, parents, your own ideals, the pressure to do your best is enormous. This pressure can lead to defining choosing in terms of sorting out the best result, where the facts about good and evil are used to sort out a course of action.
But that doesn’t work as a fundamental definition of choosing, because then the result of the decision is FORCED by the facts about good and evil, which means that then a decision could not turn out several different ways. It is basically like a chesscomputer calculating the next move.
To do your best means to first choose about what is good, by expression of emotion with free will, which then results in an opinion, and then you can use that opinion to sort out a course of action. Only the original forming of the opinion is the act of choosing, the consequent sorting is not choosing.
For example, first one decides one likes to get to the top of the mountain, consequently the options are sorted in terms of that opinion, meaning that all the options which contribute to going to the top of the mountain are good, and all the options which lead away from the top are bad.
Essentially the goodness or evil of any decision is not in the result of the decision, but in the agency of a decision, which makes the decision turn out the way it does.
People are extremely insistent on defining choosing in terms of sorting out the best result. Also because that when choosing is defined in such a way, it means that anytime you make a choice then you did the best by definition. Think about it, if choosing means to sort out the best result, then when you have made a choice, the definition of choosing says that you did the best. Then your ego is boosted, drugs are released in the brain, the way of thinking is highly addictive.
So if you don’t understand creationist philosophy, then you should spend a lot of time considering the definition of choosing that you use. Experience tells me that in 100 percent of cases this is the problem in failing to comprehend creationist philosophy.