Re: Signs of Scientism

--- David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:

> However, if you want to avoid the "blind watchmaker," it seems to me
> that you also have to hold that "divine action" can be detected by
> scientific test, since any "natural" process we observe is the result
> of direct "divine action."

Which brings up a problem: if you hold that every natural process we observe is
the result of divine action, then there is no example of a nondivinely directed
process. So we cannot detect a divinely directed process by comparing it with a
nondivinely directed process. (This argument is not original with me. I
understand it's based on an argument of David Hume. Does anyone recognize the
argument who can give me the reference?)

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Wed Jan 18 12:36:28 2006