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    The continual creation of matter in steady-state cosmolog... — Carmelics
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    The continual creation of matter in steady-state cosmology is a manifestation of perpetual divine creation.

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    • 1.Ex nihilo creation of matter violates the law of energy conservation.
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    • 2.A violation of energy conservation requires an external creative cause to account for it.
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    • 3.The external creative cause of matter's continual creation is best identified with perpetual divine activity.
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    • 1.Steady-state cosmology's C-field, as formulated by Hoyle, is a physical field governed by natural equations, not an ontological gap requiring agency.
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    • 2.Invoking divine causation where a complete physical description already exists commits the 'God of the gaps' fallacy identified by Bonhoeffer and Pannenberg.
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    • 3.A perpetual natural process, however unusual, does not logically entail a personal creator without a separate argument that persons are the only productive causes.
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues establish that analogical inference from human creativity to divine creativity fails when the phenomenon lacks clear resemblance to intentional acts.
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    • 2.Continual field-driven particle creation is structurally analogous to radioactive decay—a law-governed regularity—not to purposive fabrication from nothing.
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    • 3.Identifying a law-governed regularity with 'perpetual divine activity' conflates Spinoza's natura naturans with the theistic conception of a freely willing creator.
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    Some Christian scientists and philosophers have seen the continual creation of matter, as posited by the steady-state theory, as a manifestation of perpetual divine creation. Thus, the Catholic philosopher Philip Quinn (1993) adopted the old notion of creatio continuans to the case of steady-state cosmology. The argument is essentially that since ex nihilo creation of matter violates energy conservation, there must be an external creative cause that accounts for the violation, and this cause he
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