RE: agreeing about a mere creation?

    Dick Fischer says,
>If God intervenes from time to time,... what was He doing when flaws and
>deleterious malfunctions occurred?

    Maybe God "intervenes" -- by guiding natural process or doing miracles
-- sometimes but not always. God isn't constrained by an all-or-none
approach and is free to make decisions, so "slippery slope" concerns about
theology don't seem appropriate.

>The other logic flaw is that if we invoke divine intervention in life
>processes why not advocate for special acts of creation in physical
>processes too?

    Maybe SOME natural processes (physical or biological) -- but not ALL --
are sufficient to accomplish what God wants to happen, so God intervenes in
some situations but not others. Again, an either-or choice (either always
or never) isn't the only option.

>An intervening Creator has no bounds. And in the face of that, science
>can't exist.

    Reliable science requires a world that is USUALLY natural, but does it
have to be ALWAYS natural?

Craig
Received on Thu Jul 28 12:23:59 2005