Re: [asa] Re: Cosmos in the Light of the Cross

> What the breakdown of determinism allows is not divine action
> itself but divine action which has some freedom and is still in accord with
> the laws of physics, & is thus still in a sense hidden.

It's a bit ironic that non-deterministic situations are now more
popular to invoke as removing divine action, whether in atheistic
invocations of randomness or in theistic attacks on randomness. If
people had a decent grasp of God's providence, a lot of
science-religion trouble would be avoided.

> But I'm asking more in the sense of responding to an atheist who sneers that it
> is fine for us to claim God's activity so long as it is *really* explainable in
> completely natural terms

There is also the fact that the atheist has difficulty in justifying
the underlying philosophical assumptions of science, not to mention
topics outside of science.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
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University of Alabama
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