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FWIW, I think it is a very good thing that Christian thinkers have been taking such a great interest in the progress of science lately.
Yet to the extent that the “scientific question” becomes how did God do the things he did, I think that is a false track. For certainly the how doesn’t matter as much as the why. And as Sir Isaac makes plain, God is Father and Lord of Life; he is our Father, we are His children – and that makes you and I brothers, in the love and peace of Christ, the Son, by virtue of His direct appeal and sacrifice, aided and abetted by the constant ministration and guidance of the Holy Spirit.…
Having said that, I do confess I am tempted to think that the ZPF is the “mechanism” or facilitator of the work of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. But that is hardly a “scientific observation.”
We have to be careful where and how we cross the line between the two domains of human knowledge and experience: Faith and Reason….
And I’m prepared to admit that the “reduction of God” to conveniently understandable human categories amounts to a defacement, not only of natural reality, but also of God's reality.
I think Isaac Newton was highly sensitive to precisely this problem….
What do you think? Thanks so much for writing, LiteKeeper!