Re: [asa] Finger on Sodom and Gomorah?

If I may roast some of the smaller fish here just a bit more ... I
don't think the "need" is on the supernatural / miracle / God did it,
side. The need is from the science side of things. It is science
that needs to explain things. And when it encounters something
supernatural, then science will, by definition, fail. But that won't
lessen its need to try. And in cases where science does succeed, that
does not prove that God was not involved. Theologians may also have a
need to explain things as well, but their domain is a superset of
science and its tools.

--Merv

Dehler, Bernie wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if you need science to explain a miracle, such as God
> sending fire from heaven onto Sodom. Does Moses parting the sea have
> to be explained by science, or Jesus changing water into wine, or
> Jesus multiplying loaves and fishes? If not, then why does fire from
> heaven need a scientific explanation? It seems to me to be a waste of
> time (and time is precious) when trying to speculate how these
> miracles could have come about through natural processes... when there
> are much bigger fish to fry.
>
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> What are the bigger fish? Well, if you are trying to reach an
> unbeliever for Christ, see what they are interested in to help them
> (such as evolution vs. creation, etc.). At some point, a belief in
> the supernatural is required for the Christian faith. Once you have
> the supernatural, then miracles aren't a problem, unless they conflict
> with history or scientific evidence (such as a literal worldwide flood
> being contradicted by evidence in nature). There are some major
> difficulties with a literal reading of the bible with science, and for
> that, we need to have answers... and I think we have a way to go on
> that.
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Received on Wed Dec 19 19:24:40 2007