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To: BurningOak
Its actually pretty solid evidence against God manually sculpting each living thing brick by brick. A God of infinite power could easily make every animal completely different anatomically, he would have no reason for redundancy in design. My theory is that God created life in a much more elegant manner: by creating the natural process that resulted in life.

Exactly. God created the physical laws that made life possible. To believe in a literal creation is akin to believing that everything that ever was, is, or will be was predetermined and free will is an illusion, since nothing, even on the atomic scale, would ever be able to happen without the direct intervention of God.

14 posted on 08/20/2012 10:00:38 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
Exactly. God created the physical laws that made life possible.

This whole idea, the basis of Deism, was controversial in Newton's day, and found a focus in the wording of Halley's Ode To Newton, which was published with the Principia. Halley's original verse had a line expressing just what you said, that God did not set aside physical law in His Creation. This was objected to as denying "Providence" - the ongoing intervention of God in worldly events. Some busybody minister got a hand in it and altered the lines in the second addition to remove the objection, but they have since been restored.

21 posted on 08/20/2012 10:25:22 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: exDemMom; BurningOak
since nothing, even on the atomic scale, would ever be able to happen without the direct intervention of God.

Or possibly it is God's existence that makes it possible for anything and everything to happen.

The quantum foam is the low hum (or OHM) of God. It is the source of energy for the entire physical universe. Without it, nothing exists.

God is many things to many people. Which seems very wise of God.

22 posted on 08/20/2012 10:27:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (RED NECK KUNG FU by Corn Fuschas)
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