Bill Hamilton wrote:
> This has been something that has bothered me about the YEC community for
> some time. They seem to divide nature into "natural" processes that proceed
> without divine supervision, and the miraculous, where God reaches into nature
> and disrupts something. I prefer to think of nature -- the entirety of it -- as
> God's creation that responds to His oversight. It seems to me foolish to
> posit that God would create nature He didn't want to interact with. It also
> seems foolish to posit that in order to interact with nature God must disrupt
> something. Rather nature is a mechanism designed to respond to the creator's
> direction at all times. The response is totally governed by natural laws. But
> the inputs (which are designed for, and which probably take place at the quntum
> level, or may be hidden in chaos) come from God. It mystifies me that YEC's
> can't -- or won't -- understand this view.
Of course it is not just the YEC's who don't understand this. The division
into 2 distinct and mutually exclusive categories of "things for which there
are natural explanations" and "things God is responsible for" is also a
characteristic of much of the Intelligent Design movement; for example it implicitly
pervades most of Phil Johnson's rhetoric. For those of us who believe God is
sovereign over nature, such a view must be rejected.
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