From: george murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
> The possibility that God arranged an asteroid impact by
adjusting
> initial conditions of orbits within a range of parameters allowed by chaos
+
> quantum theories can't be ruled out. But you have a more serious
theological
> problem here in that you have put God at the level of other causal agents
in the
> universe. God as primary cause normally acts through secondary causes -
> gravity, your hands, &c - to act in the world. If you want to argue that
God
> acted without the mediation of secondary causes in that "his thoughts"
play the
> same role as your hands, you are speaking about intervention which goes
beyond
> the capacities of creatures, whether or not the result "looks" miraculous.
>
Are you saying that God can only intervene to the capacity which his
creatures are capable? If God chooses to act at any level of involvement He
desires, why would that be a theological problem?
Allen
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