Originally posted by rogue06
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"... the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them." (Jer. 36:26)
Scripture readily reveals that God regularly accomplishes His purposes through means such as natural processes or human activity. In fact, I think that God's sovereignty and rational character provide immeasurable support for believing that creation operates primarily by regular principles that can be discovered through scientific investigation.
" The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD." (Prov. 16:33)
IOW, looking for natural solutions -- the secondary causes -- does not take God out of the equation.
You keep saying that but continue to fail at providing a method in which we could eliminate natural causes.
Again, just because we don't have an answer today does not mean we won't tomorrow. That's what happened to Behe's examples of irreducible complexity. There may not have been answers when he first presented them but since then numerous solutions have appeared.
You want to shut down inquiry and simply declare "it's a miracle!" and be done with it.
Please explain how declaring something happened as a result of supernatural intervention has ever helped solve a criminal investigation.
Finally, as I previously pointed out, in one of his last works, The Christian Virtuoso, Boyle made his view clear:
We should look for natural explanations and follow the evidence.
"consult Experience both frequently and heedfully; and not content with the Phaenonmena that Nature spontaneously affords them, they are solicitous, when they find it needful, to enlarge their Experience by Tryals purposely devis’d; and ever and anon Reflecting upon it, they are careful to Conform their opinions to it; or, if there be just cause, Reform their Opinions by it."
We should look for natural explanations and follow the evidence.
I'll add this from Kathryn Applegate (who I've mentioned in a previous post):
Perhaps surprisingly, methodological naturalism frees us to envision God not as periodically “intervening” in our world (a word which connotes meddling or tampering), but as faithfully and lovingly preserving, redeeming, and remaking all things in Christ. Methodological naturalism, when practiced by a Christian, presupposes the sovereignty and consistent sustaining work of God
"Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
Do the skies themselves send down showers?
No, it is you, LORD our God.
Therefore our hope is in you,
for you are the one who does all this." (Jer. 14:22)
Cite me just one instance where forensics eliminated natural causes.
Blessings,
Lee
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