Entropy, the Fall, and Tillich: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Original Sin

4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation

“…To some thinkers these endings -one an outcome of divine intervention, the other an outcome of natural processes -are disparate, they may never be reconciled. Others strive to bring them together, positing, for example, 'the principle of entropy as an existential dynamic of the Fall' and, thereby, 'reasserting the universality of original sin' (Bradnick 2009, Davis 2011. 3 An understanding of evil as an analogue of entropy, of the former as the inexorable, accumulative and dissipative fate of human beings from the time of the Fall, of the latter as the inexorable, accumulative and dissipative fate of all matter from the beginning of time, underlies a reading of both as processes of decay that culminate in terminal collapse (Russell 1984).…”

Sin in the cosmological function of the mystical view-point of Ibn ‘Arabī: An interdisciplinary approach

“…Although scienti ic theories concerning the evolution of the human species have presented major challenges for theologies and understandings of original sin, the analysis of the religious concepts based on the other approaches will help the scholars to better understand those concepts in the religious realm and allow for new creative explorations that may deepen our understanding of classic doctrines (Azhar, 2015;Van den Toren, 2016). For example, some of new researches explain the corrosion of the world from a scienti ic (entropy) and a theological (original sin) perspective and show how potentially these two disciplines reach a position for a more fruitful dialogue (Bradnick, 2009). Some others try to reconcile the original sin and human origin with evolution, and also they demonstrate what in this case seems to be most consistent with science, human experience, philosophy, and theology (Flaman, 2016).…”