Work, Entropy and Time Natural Evil Through the Lens of Fundamental Physical Law

[Byron Elliott]

Abstract:

This paper builds on my previous SVS papers, particularly the maintenance aspect of needed work due to living in a fallen/falling world.  The church often speaks to the ethical dimension of how work is done and not to what work to do.  With the myriad of jobs available in the world, what criteria do we use to determine what work is good to do.  This paper explores parallels between moral evil and natural evil when looked at from this perspective of natural evil as informed by current ideas from quantum physics, relativity and thermodynamics, with fundamental physical laws playing the role in natural evil that free will plays in moral evil.  The church usually addresses moral evil, which is why it focuses mostly on ethical issues in work.  This paper argues that addressing natural evil is a better fit for grounding an understanding a large amount of work that is necessary and good in the secular world – and this also helps to remove the problem of how to fit unpaid work into the overall concept of work.

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