amen, sisterIn other words, if your pre-existing belief is that everything is God's will, then of course everything that happens is covered. So there is no new information.
If my belief system were that, so long as I pray for someone, then that person will never, ever die .. then I guess you would have a point. There would be a lot of tremendously old people walking around. But there aren’t. The fact that, in the end, everyone does die, does not in any way provide “evidence against God”.
And no “miracles” for amputees to grow back appendages.
Science is the best hope for limb regeneration. No amount of praying has seen anyone grow back an arm. Their god hates amputees, huh?
amen, sisterSome very good friends of mine were driving across a CO mountain pass in winter that has a very dangerous stretch with lots of avalanches. Usually lose at least one car a year, and nobody has ever survived being swept off the road into the canyon.
They stopped and prayed before driving across the stretch. An avalanche hit and swept them off the road. They survived and eventually climbed out.
They believed their survival was a miracle provided by God in response to their prayers.
I pointed out that if they hadn’t stopped to pray, they would have been past the dangerous stretch before the avalanche hit.
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For me Einstein [ a real scientist ] trumps Darwin [ not really any advanced degrees in scientific thought nor original ideas ] every which way. See gravitational time dilation for another perspective regarding how old starlight may not actually be that old.
Or better yet read the book ‘Starlight and Time’ by Russell Humphreys.