[the_Watchman]

"Nature does it best in terms of design,"

They even resort to anthropomorphisms and it STILL doesn't occur to them.

I just completed R.C. Sproul's "Not a Chance". He contends that in the rush to divest God of any role in our affairs we have adopted a paradigm where action and purpose are ascribed to "chance".

For instance, Sproul points out that the results of a given coin toss is NOT a chance event. It is simply a physical event so complicated, and with so many uncontrolled variables, that we consider it a chance event. The reality is that it is simply an event which we have not chosen to calculate. However, we act as if "chance" acts as an agent to actively randomize the result. There is no such agent in the universe.

[Anomaly in Illinois]

chance = providence

(I have the flu & that's the best I can do today. *g* Not a Chance sounds like an interesting book)

[Trinity_Tx]

"...in the rush to divest God of any role in our affairs we have adopted a paradigm where action and purpose are ascribed to "chance".

For instance, Sproul points out that the results of a given coin toss is NOT a chance event. It is simply a physical event so complicated, and with so many uncontrolled variables, that we consider it a chance event. The reality is that it is simply an event which we have not chosen to calculate. However, we act as if "chance" acts as an agent to actively randomize the result. There is no such agent in the universe."

Honest question here... I don't understand the point, or the relevance of the second paragraph to the first.

Are you saying it would be wrong to attribute the motion and result of the coin toss to the laws of physics etc? ...That God is behind every toss of a coin, designing and guiding each coin toss event and the variables influencing it?

Couldn't one say rather, that god created the laws of physics and then the events follow accordingly?