Re: Nature article on ID

Iain Strachan wrote:

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> Instead I see God's providential care in that the universe keeps on
> running ("creator and sustainer") - if you pursue the algorithm
> analogy, it's what supplies the power to the computer that's running
> the algorithm. Or as Stephen Hawking put it in the last chapter of
> "Brief History of Time" : "What is it that breathes fire into the
> equations?".
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> But more than that, surely God's providential care is exhibited in the
> fact that he has revealed himself to us through Scripture, and in the
> ultimate intervention, as Jesus Christ, giving us the gift of
> everlasting life. But these interventions are to do with His
> relationship to us, and not in fixing an imperfect creation so that we
> might come about. I would suggest that he got that bit right, right
> "in the beginning".
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> Iain.
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> There are 3 types of people in the world.
> Those who can count and those who can't.
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I would suggest a different viewpoint altogether.

I do not see God as acting "within time" at all. Time is as internal
property of the universe (space time continuum) that God created. As you
say. He did not strike a match and then watch, because "watching"
implies that he is constrained by time like we are. When God created
this space-time continuum, He got what he wanted by definition. How he
did -- or does -- all this is speculation.

The naturalist assumes that He does not interact on a physical basis.
Others assume that that universe would simply collapse if God were no
longer to exist -- and that He well may play an active role at specific
space-time points, such as earth 2000 years ago.

Walt

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Received on Mon May 2 09:12:41 2005