Griffin's views

Cards (4)

  • Griffin rejects the view that the world was created 'Ex Nihilo' and the creation story of Genesis. He argues it's been mistranslated.
  • Griffin believes that the universe is uncreated and eternal, it was always there. God persuaded matter away from the 'chaos' into an ordered state. The Babylonian accounts support this view.
  • Griffin rejects the idea that God is omnipotent. God would have to be all-powerful to create the universe. Chaotic matter would've had some power of its own and could have resisted God. The analogy between the human mind and bodies shows that we only see our minds as connected to our bodies, so it makes sense God exists in the same way.
  • Quantum physics on a sub-atomic scale gives support to Griffin's views on creation.