Sentence examples for contingent creation from inspiring English sources
Eric, you see, is a contingent creation, an accretion of habits and conventions, a postmodern construction.
That is, assuming God's contingent creation in the first place, and His 'general influence' that keeps the chain of causation in existence, natural causation works necessarily, and so with all of an effect's causes taken together, what happens in nature is necessary.
Conventions, after all, are contingent creations that differ from place to place and come in to, and go out of, existence.
There is no contingent existence.
Second, there is the thought that divine creation is contingent.
Among the marks of the Creator is that he exists necessarily, and is timeless and changeless, while his creation is contingent, and its changes are marked by time.
Craig argues against the idea of divine timelessness on the grounds that, since the creation is contingent, God must have relations with his creation that he would not have had had there been no creation.
God, he proposes, could have made the world work in any number of ways, and the contingent history and character of Creation means that there is nothing immutable about the essence of a material thing.
For Ockham, the only truly necessary entity is God; everything else, the whole of creation, is radically contingent through and through.
The creation of an industrial society was contingent on the fear provoked by censorship, mass arrests and other police operations.
The universe is a contingent object.
