> Ok, but all of this has gotten lost in too many specifics about
> particular miracles recorded in the Bible. The basic principle is
> this: miracles that impact on the physical world imply physical
> evidence that something unusual has occurred. There was water; now
> suddenly there is wine people can taste and enjoy. There was a dead
> man; now suddenly people can touch him and talk to him. If -- a big,
> huge if that I'm not necessarily advocating -- God separately created
> some kinds of life at different points in history, outside of or above
> or through an accellerated common descent, it seems to me there should
> be no reason in principle that we'd be humanly incapable of observing
> that something unusual happened when sifting the ex post evidence.
> The "a supernatural being can do everything and anything so there's no
> way we could distinguish the supernatural from the natural" argument
> makes no sense to me if I adopt an epistemology that allows for an
> orderly God who sometimes causes observable "miracles" to happen.
I discussed these issues in my extended earlier post.
Keith
Keith B. Miller
Research Assistant Professor
Dept of Geology, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-3201
785-532-2250
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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