Tweaking and intervention

pdd@gcc.cc.md.us
6 May 1996 23:28:40 EDT

>>Take for example some random radiation damage that leads to some
mutation... This is all describable in terms of probabilities, physics,
genetics, evolutionary biology, etc. Does the existence of such an
explanation mean that God was not intimately involved? I don't think
so!
It happened just the way he planned it and caused it, but since most of
the
time he works in a regular manner (according to his covenant
faithfulness),
the event is quite describable using science.<< (TG)

Another question may be, could the existance of damaging forces,
events, or phenomena also point to another explanation... a potential
disruption in God's perfect, natural order of things? Instead of God
being intimately involved it could also very well be that another force
may be at work that requires God's continual intervention in terms of
maintenance and repair. The resulting phenomena of that force may be
describable using science, but it may not be attributable to God's
handiwork.

God's intervention is then also needed for several reasons...

1. To accomplish His perfect will and plan to reconcile man and His
creation back to himself, and...

2. until that is accomplished, maintain the natural order in a state or
condition that limits the disruption.

Paul Durham