Re: [asa] Creation and Incarnation

On 8/18/06, Gregory Arago <gregoryarago@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> David Campbell wrote:
> "the fact that one can combine printing articles in the ordinary fashion
> with prayer and God's work shows that use of natural methods is not
> inherently atheistic. / Attacking MN is a red herring."
>
> Please excuse if I didn't quite understand your message. I think I agree.
> But I'm not sure what you mean by 'natural methods.' Is printing considered
> to be a 'natural method' or is prayer a natural method? It seems that some
> people define printing presses as 'artificial' and prayer as 'natural' (or
> characteristic) only to believers and whatever they are praying to.
>
>

You caught another ambiguity. Natural in that sentence means
"obeying physical laws", so printing is a natural method of disseminating
information, in contrast to assumptions involving divine revelation. It's
perfectly reasonable to make use of the former while also hoping for the
latter to occur, e.g. in praying for it.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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