Wayfarer's Rest

I tend to believe that we live in a clockwork universe, where God created everything and then pretty much vanished from the scene to wait for time to run out, but leaving us our free will. Otherwise, I think, if God somehow had a hand in the world where natural disasters take thousands of lives, he'd be complicit in murder.



But another idea occurred to me a few days ago. What if he does have a hand in this world and, while respecting our free will, perhaps the Earth is alive, and he… Continue