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ar: “He thought that God setting up all these intricate, interrelated laws of physics to make things happen as they did was even more incredible than simply creating something.”

amd Indeed. Such is truly the workings of an amazing and transcendent God. A God who goes “poof” and things happen is a God that even a child can understand.

OK. Then explain how God did it with *poof*.

What was the mechanism that made everything appear instantaneously? How much power did it take? Where'd the matter come from? How was it formed?

If it's so simple that a child can understand it, you shouldn't have any problem telling us how He just popped matter into existence in fully formed, highly organized, properly functioning systems.

If the end product is the same, how is it that it took longer any more incredible than if it took less time? Why is the time frame the criteria for determining that than the fact that God was able to do it.

Any God capable of creating all known matter and producing the universe we observe and live in is pretty incredible regardless of the length of time involved in the mechanism.

Claiming that the God who took longer is somehow a greater God is merely human rationalization to support their POV. It's simply an opinion.

What was the mechanism that made everything appear instantaneously? How much power did it take? Where'd the matter come from? How was it formed?

Once it was heresy to claim that the sun was more than a few thousand years old because calculations showed that it would have burned all the fuel. Now we know the atomic reactions involved and that it has enough fuel to burn for millions of years. I am sure that people in that day used logic similar to yours in justifying that the age of the solar system was just a few thousand years.

That is the point of “poof”, it doesn’t require an explanation, that is what makes it easy to understand.

A universe that unfolds according to Laws, such that stars and planets form, does NOT mean that God is not their creator. So why does a physical explanation for how life changes make God not the ultimate creator of all living things.

As the Pope was quoted previously in this thread, the thought came before the form, thus they were all created within the mind of God before their physical form came into being.

You are correct that a God who sets up physical laws such that the universe forms over billions of years being a more amazing and transcendent God than one who goes “poof” is just an opinion. But it is my opinion.

Thanks for writing dear sister in Christ.