RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (miracle timing)

One can certainly be inspired by belief in a Supreme Being to make scientific discoveries. Isaac Newton did science in order to know God. However, when Newton mathematized his ideas of gravitation into a theory, he could certainly not make God part of his theory. I think it is when one wants to explain what and who man is that God must come into the picture. Therefore, any theory of humans will be incomplete without bringing God in.

Moorad

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Subject: RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (miracle timing)

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:

> What scientific questions creation by TE answers that cannot be answered
> by ordinary, non-theistic evolutionary theory?
>
> Moorad
>

A similar question can be asked about any science, including physics.

Does belief in God cause you to make a scientific prediction that you
wouldn't have made otherwise? (Maybe not, although we are influenced by
metaphysical presuppositions that we share with all scientists.)

Belief in God does imply belief in design, but it doesn't necessarily
imply that you can prove design, although some scientific discoveries have
moved some people toward that belief.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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