Rather than saying God "intervenes" I have begun saying
that God acts in an unprecedented way from a human point of view.
Thus the overtones of inappropriateness or unnaturalness that might
attach to the term "intervention" is avoided, and the focus is placed
on the limitedness and incompleteness of human observation.
In other words, it seems presumptuous against the regularity
and concurrence of God's providential work to call any particular
instance that strikes us as anomalous or unusual an "intervention."
If we say that a phenomenon is unprecedented from the point of
view of our finite scientific perspective, I think we are being
more accurate.
Your comments?
Dennis Durst