RE: ID at NRO

There is a feature of the Minkowski 4-dimensional spacetime that is
queer, which is a feature of special relativity. When using such
diagrams to describe the world curve of anything that exists, one must
drawn a complete curve, from beginning to end. Therefore, the whole
history of that particular entity is known, so to speak, from birth to
death. One is so used to time proceeding moment by moment and viewing
spacetime in the Minkowski way seems to put us in the position of God,
where the whole of time is an eternal now. Of course, if we think of God
as sustaining the creation, then He may be creating all that there is
instant by instant. In physics we deal with events as points in
spacetime, I am not sure how to visualize humans embedded in a Minkowski
spacetime.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:00 AM
To: Bill Dozier; Don Winterstein
Cc: Rich Blinne; asa
Subject: Re: ID at NRO

Bill Dozier wrote:

"The tacit assumption behind talk like that is that at
times when He is not "tweaking" the Universe somehow
manages on its own. As soon as you divorce God from the
normal, "understood" processes, you have a
God-of-the-gaps, shrinking God."

With RFEP you have the Creator making a creation that is
full of all of the necessary rules to run via natural
process, either on its own without intervention from God
at all, or with God's constant presence. But in order for
RFEP to be consistent with Christianity, God has to, on
occasion, act outside of the usual processes to perform a
miracle.

So, how is this really that different from what you are
claiming that ID claims? I am not familiar with ID saying
that God ONLY works in the gaps. As Christians we
believer there is a designer. And we also have to believe
that on occasion God intervenes and causes something to
happen in nature, that could only have happened
supernaturally. Do you really mean to completely discard
ID just because they are emphasizing the gaps? It seems
to me that you are making a distinction between ID, and
RFEP that doesnt really exist.
Received on Tue Feb 15 11:23:47 2005