My last sentence above answers that. I think God *could* create however
he pleases. I have no major quarrel with those in the ID movement who
say that we should be *open to the possibility* of God acting in an
"interventionist" manner that is scientifically discernable. My quarrel
is with those who would make that mode of creation a necessity on which
the truth of theism depends. Johnson seems to me to draw that
unfortunate line in the sand, while some others in the movement (Paul
Nelson, for example) seem to be coming from a healthier perspective
without these presuppositions on how God must or must not have acted.
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