David Campbell wisely stated:
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"If you recognize that God is
intimately involved in things that happen via secondary causes, then
faith is not threatened by explanations that invoke secondary causes.
"God did it, but how?" is the correct question, not "Did God do it or
did natural causes do it?" An appallingly large chunk of atheistic
and of antievolutionary nonsense is rooted in not understanding that."
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AHH comments:
In a class I taught recently, I made this point with a "Family Circus"
cartoon I saw a few years ago. In it, some of the family is standing at the Grand
Canyon. One of the children is asking:
"The ranger said the river dug the canyon, Mommy, and you said God did it.
Who’s right?"
The childish either/or in that question exemplifies the "nonsense" David
laments, and I would contend that this one childish error is at the root of
about 50% of our problems in the science/faith area.
Of course in the Grand Canyon context most Christian parents could give a
good answer like "God is in charge of the river" or "The river is a tool God
uses." But it's hard to get them to apply the same logic when the family moves
from the canyon to the zoo ...
Allan
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