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To: Still Thinking

——No, saying that would make God deceptive is to hold Him responsible for the misapprehension of humans who insist on interpreting the evidence without allowing for His influence.-——

Given my understanding of the science, that would hold true for the origin of life, and the origin of human beings. AFAIK, purely material causes cannot explain these things. Miraculous intervention in the Created order would explain these things, harmonizing science with the miraculous.

But the expansion of the universe, from the first moment of Creation through the formation of the planets, can be explained by natural forces, and does not require miraculous intervention. I take this on authority from people like Fr. Robert Spitzer.


62 posted on 03/02/2012 11:44:16 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
But the expansion of the universe, from the first moment of Creation through the formation of the planets, can be explained by natural forces, and does not require miraculous intervention. I take this on authority from people like Fr. Robert Spitzer.

And that may well be; but even then if humans preemptively rule out one or more possible explanations for events, simply because those explanations are uncomfortable or challenge their worldview, that's hardly God's fault. If the researchers come to the evidence with eyes and minds open, they'll find what they find.

69 posted on 03/03/2012 1:10:56 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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