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Newsletter Nr. 1.433
Amsterdam, Oktober 23, 2025


What Was There Before There Was Anything? - And Why Invoking Information Doesn't Save God - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Theists often try to turn the tables on skeptics. When asked the classic question—“Who created God?”—they reply with another: “Well, what was there before there was anything?” It's a question designed to sound profound, to make disbelief seem as naïve as belief. But behind its rhetorical force lies confusion. It mistakes mystery for argument, and awe for explanation.

https://www.integralworld.net/visser623.html


From Renaissance Light to Modern Stagnation - The Lost Brilliance of Islamic Thought - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

When we think of the Renaissance, we see Europe's great awakening after the long medieval sleep: Florence, Michelangelo, Galileo, and the rebirth of reason and beauty. But centuries before Europe stirred from its slumber, the torch of knowledge was already blazing in the East.
Long before Copernicus and Leonardo, there was Baghdad, Córdoba, Cairo—cities where books were copied by the thousands and knowledge was treated as a sacred duty. The Islamic world of the early Middle Ages was not merely a guardian of ancient wisdom. It was its inventive heir.

https://www.integralworld.net/visser624.html


Self-Organization, Adaptation, and the God Hypothesis - How Evolutionary Pressures Create Metaphysical Dogma - Joseph Dillard / AI

When highly intelligent scientists and philosophers, figures such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, David Bohm, Rupert Sheldrake, Donald Hoffman, Bernard Katstrup, and Ken Wilber, speak of an “alive universe,” a “cosmic mind,” “spirit,” or an underlying “consciousness” that pervades reality, they are rarely appealing to a personal God in the traditional sense. Rather, they are attempting to make sense of a paradox at the heart of existence: the tension between adaptation and self-organization in evolution.

https://www.integralworld.net/dillard152.html