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    God is the source of the order and direction of motion in... — Carmelics
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    God is the source of the order and direction of motion in the universe.

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    • 1.Matter is entirely inert and passive.
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    • 2.An inert substance cannot itself be the source of order or direction.
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    • 3.Some principle must supply the order and direction of motion.
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues establish that inferring a divine intelligent source from observed order commits the fallacy of assuming the explanandum (ordered universe) in the explanans (an ordering God).
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    • 2.Matter exhibiting self-organizing properties, as demonstrated in Epicurean atomism and later in thermodynamic dissipative systems, provides a parsimonious alternative that does not require positing an external ordering principle.
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    • 3.The premise that matter is 'entirely inert and passive' is an empirically contestable Cartesian assumption, not a self-evident truth, as Leibnizian active force (vis viva) and Newtonian gravity demonstrate.
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrates that a single infinite substance (Deus sive Natura) can be both the immanent cause and the ordered expression of all motion without requiring a transcendent external source.
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    • 2.If God is identical with nature's ordering principles rather than external to them, the claim that God is the 'source' of order conflates immanent causation with external agency.
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    The ultimate source and direction of motion is God.86%God is the total and efficient cause of motion in the universe.83%Some principle must supply the order and direction of motion.82%An inert substance cannot itself be the source of order or direction.79%

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    Le Grand’s contribution to the Cartesian account of motion may either be seen as an extension or a revision of Descartes’s, sometimes ambiguous, treatment. Le Grand took seriously the claim that God is the total and efficient cause of motion in the universe, and that matter is entirely passive, and hence bodies are incapable of self-movement, or of moving other bodies. In his Entire Body of Philosophy, he argued that since a body may be in motion or at rest, motion must be a mode non-essential t
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