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To: SoothingDave
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.

164 posted on 11/06/2008 4:25:17 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vehe'min beHaShem; vayachsheveha lo tzedaqah.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It’s very simple really. Either you believe God reveals Himself through study of his Creation or you don’t.

I don’t ascribe to the notion that God created the universe in order to deceive us when we study it.

Since you seem to believe direct Divine revelation is intended to contradict what our senses tell us, could you be kind enough to tell us exactly where in Scripture you find this?


165 posted on 11/06/2008 4:41:18 PM PST by SoothingDave
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