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Ahem--that's if you assume uniformitarianism, that from the very first instant of existence all natural laws and all physical realities have operated exactly as they do now (the gestation period has always been nine months, no one has ever lived nine hundred years, etc.). Then in the name of scientific uniformitarianism I demand that you admit that dead people can't come back to life, water doesn't change into wine, and transubstantiation simply cannot take place. You have absolutely no excuse other than the most bald-faced hypocrisy (or else a knee-jerk prejudice against "those Bible-thumpers") in order to maintain this inconsistency.

Let me get this straight. If we believe that the laws of nature and physics have remained the same since the time of creation, we are being "inconsistent"?

Miracles are miracles exactly because they are incidents where the Divine suspends normal physical laws.

I see no Biblical reason to assume that time and space behaved differently thousands of years ago. That would seem to make scientific revelation a game of "gotcha."

God made the world and saw that it was good. I don't think he hid fossils of dinosaurs and changed the way carbon behaves just so He could damn people who looked to His Creation for clues about Him.

Let me get this straight. If we believe that the laws of nature and physics have remained the same since the time of creation, we are being "inconsistent"?
Miracles are miracles exactly because they are incidents where the Divine suspends normal physical laws.

I see no Biblical reason to assume that time and space behaved differently thousands of years ago. That would seem to make scientific revelation a game of "gotcha."

Of course you don't, because you regard the Torah as primitive mythology adapted from the Babylonians. You therefore don't seem capable of understanding a very simple principal--that the universe didn't start to operate until it was completed. Thus plants before sun and moon, a human gestation period of only a few minutes, etc. And even then there were three periods of deterioration (the sin, the Flood, and the Dispersion). But you are one of those people who says that consistency means that the only alternative to absolute uniformitarianism would be a gigantic Paul Klee painting, aren't you? "If what you say is true, then how do I know my cat won't breathe fire on me?" Is that how it goes?

God made the world and saw that it was good. I don't think he hid fossils of dinosaurs and changed the way carbon behaves just so He could damn people who looked to His Creation for clues about Him.

Let's get this straight . . . "damnation" is part of your religion, not mine. I guess that makes you the "redneck" on that issue.