Re: God's place in nature

GRMorton@aol.com
Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:50:31 -0400

Stephen wrote:
>I am not clear if God has any more part to play in this "system"
Glenn. If He has, please indicate what it is. If He doesn't, how is
yopur position any different from Deism, where God winds the universe
up like a clock and then lets it run itself according to the rules
built into the clockwork mechanism?<

and
>Your answer mentions "regularly". Are you conceding that God did get
involved irregularly?<

Stephen,
I have always believed and advocated here that God does get invovled. God
was, I believe involved in the creation of the universe, at the creation of
life (although I still think he might have planned for that at the beginning
but presently I do think He was involved there), at the creation of man to
take care of the mind/body problem you mention), He was involved in the
miracles of the O.T. and N. T. and involved most assuredly at the
resurrection. He has also been involved in my life.

Why is it that too often the assumption is that if you believe in evolution
you can't believe in miracles?

Stephen wrote:
>Again my question is (which you have not really answered), if God
followed this pattern of direct intervention in human history, against
a background of normal historical process, why could He not have
intervened in biological history, against a background of normal
biological process?<

He could have. I just don't think the evidence supports such a view.

glenn

glenn