And who is nature’s God that is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence? Darwin was a scientist who believed in causality, but that doesn’t rule out the existence of God. Some might say you can’t be both a scientist and a Christian, yet God created a world that operates by scientific means. To Him there is no controversy.
Re: “Darwin was a scientist who believed in causality, but that doesn’t rule out the existence of God. Some might say you can’t be both a scientist and a Christian, yet God created a world that operates by scientific means. To Him there is no controversy.”
I agree with you. It’s interesting that you bring up “causality” because I think it is the atheistic view that denies the law of causality when it comes to the origin of the universe.
The Big Bang definitely demonstrates that the universe, time, and space had a beginning - something came from nothing. If nothing existed prior to the Big Bang, no physical laws, no “natural” forces - how could the appearance of the universe be a “natural” event? Something had to cause the universe - if it indeed had a beginning. The theistic view that a Being, outside of time and space, of immense power, who designed and fine-tuned the universe so as to permit it’s very existence seems more plausible to me than that something came from nothing by nothing for nothing.