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"For this to have been an act of God, God would have to have been all-knowing, foreseen this very conflict roughly 1,000 years before it occurred, foreseen the bog market, foreseen the use of power tools, foreseen the individual working the equipment and ensured this particular one was working that part of that bog that day, have created the book of its various parts (leather, the paper within) in the first place, have placed it in that place for 1,000 years of earthquakes and various other acts of God, foreseen the person who purchased the land would happen to be of the save artifacts mindset (not common among money-hungry landowners) and foreseen the need to it open to that page on that day. I don't know, seems all haphazard to me."

The author suggests that these random events were unable to reach this moment, via the chaos of history, at exactly the right time.

I disagree.

Chaos is not random, but is an occult, "hidden," or implicate order within nature.

Deism is the belief that the Creator put the universe into motion, but rather than remaining separate from it, actually became it, remaining hidden in the background and operating as natural law.

This law, it was believed, could be discerned by the minds of people who cared to look for it.

Many of the founders of the United States were deists, including Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.

Or the discovery of the universal rhythms that permeate chaos, may simply be the fingerprints of God.

But, either way, this small series of seemingly random events is small potatoes in the beautiful dance of math that underlies all nature.

Regards,

>" Or the discovery of the universal rhythms that permeate chaos, may simply be the fingerprints of God.
But, either way, this small series of seemingly random events is small potatoes in the beautiful dance of math that underlies all nature.

Possibly the Brilliance of the design blinds us to its very existance! How would we know?