---- David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Timaeus said: Yet, if we accept Gingerich's account here as a tentative
> explanation, clearly God is being mixed up with natural causes.
>
> I respond: This is getting tiresome because you're still not willing to
> consider that "causes" can be both "natural" and "of God." You've admitted,
> I think, that the "cause" of the birth of a baby is both "natural" and
> "God's will." Why can't there be multiple levels of causation elsewhere in
> nature?
Bingo! I have already noted this, & hope that I will be exonerated from any charge of hubris in saying that by the fact that this idea of God's action bthrough natural processes is an old & widespread part of Christian belief. It long predates either David or myself. & failure to recognize this is just one reason why I consider Timaeus' summas much ado about not very much.
Shalom,
George
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