Re: something from nothing

Jim Behnke (jimbeh@ms.uky.edu)
Fri, 26 May 1995 20:32:22 -0400 (EDT)

Earlier today Stephen was responding to an earlier post by Glenn about bread
baking and God's creative involvement;

This brought to mind a seemingly stupid, but quite interesting question.

If I were to drop of rock from waist height, is God' active involvement
required for it to fall to the ground? Or do the physics require that it
fall without God's participation. The only possible involvement by God would
be to "intervene" to change its fall.

I seems to me that the only possible Christian answer worth the name Christain
is that the rock could not have fallen unless God directly caused it to fall.

Terry, would you agree with my answer?

Do some of you disagree?

Jim Behnke, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY 40390 jimbeh@ms.uky.edu