Re: Science and supernatural explanations #2/2

Brian D. Harper (bharper@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:44:46 -0400

At 08:54 PM 4/21/96 EDT, Steve J wrote:

quoting Hugh Ross
>In 1988 George Greenstein expressed these
>thoughts: "As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently
>arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be
>involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have
>stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being?
>Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for
>our benefit?" ("Symbiotic Universe, p27)"

and in the next paragraph Greenstein writes:

A heady prospect. Unfortunately I believe it to be illusory.
As I claim mankind is not the center of the universe, as
I claim anthropism to be different from anthropocentrism,
so too I believe that the discoveries of science are not
capable of proving God's existence-not now, not ever.
And more than that: I also believe that reference to God
will never suffice to explain a single one of these
discoveries. God is not an explanation.

>(Ross H., "Astronomical
>Evidences for a Personal, Transcendent God", in Moreland J.P. ed.,
>"The Creation Hypothesis", InterVarsity Press: Illinois, 1994, p164)
>
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