Re: Nature article on ID

From: bivalve <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 17:32:25 EDT

> Would you accept my main point however, that God's interventions in nature
> are more to do with revealing Himself to us, rather than helping nature over
> the tricky bits? (I think Richard Dawkins used this phrase in an article in
> the UK Daily Telegraph). God creates a universe in which inevitably
> intelligent creatures are going to evolve - it seems fantastic that this
> could ever happen knowing the amazing complexity of life, but God's a much
> better designer than anyone else. And when these creatures evolve, they are
> going to ask deep questions Who am I? Where do I come from? Is it all a huge
> fluke? etc. And God intervenes, often "supernaturally" at this point,
> inspiring men to write down scripture under the inspiration of the Holy
> Spirit, by performing miracles of healing, showing his compassion, and
> ultimately by his sacrificial death on the Cross. It seems to me that all
> the points in scripture where God has intervened are so that we might know
> that he is God (e.g. the healing of the man born blind - John 9:3).

I'd agree with this (assuming that you are including all interventions, such as the Biblical miracles-I don't think you mean to imply that there must be interventions within the course of physical evolution). It also relates to a basic problem of ID/YEC science arguments. They don't reveal God to us. There's no way to tell whether the intelligent designer/recent creator is YHWH or Zeus or Allah or Ungabunga or hyperintelligent aliens or....

The biblical terminology of "signs" relates to this function of miracles-as pointers to God.

    Dr. David Campbell
    Old Seashells
    University of Alabama
    Biodiversity & Systematics
    Dept. Biological Sciences
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