“The same uniformitarianism...” blah, blah, blah... “Laws of nature, you know.”
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Yes, yes, we ‘know’ the laws of nature, but you said it yourself: we rely on the uniformitarian ASSUMPTION. This merely asserts the limits of our knowledge, but does not and cannot command the universe to conform to our understanding. Ultimately, it, too, is a matter of faith, as can be demonstrated by a simple thought experiment.
Let’s say that through a time machine you could monitor Mary for the entire year before the birth of our Lord. In this process, you could not find a single incident that would lead to conception, and yet she gives birth. Would you have ‘proved’ the virgin birth, or would you fall back on your faith in your assumption and say that something natural occurred which we do not as yet understand?
Obviously proof is irrelevant to those who will not believe; the problem is that skeptics fail to understand that they have just as much stubborn faith as anybody else.
I agree.