tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539147287756218800.post6844878809670002607..comments2015-02-19T02:10:12.554-08:00Comments on Intellectual Feast: Bridging the Divide Between Faith and ScienceKeith Rozumalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11075074084646770559noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539147287756218800.post-25173173631888958102011-02-21T10:05:18.267-08:002011-02-21T10:05:18.267-08:00Ha-ha, yeah, I think I was surprised as much as yo...Ha-ha, yeah, I think I was surprised as much as you were that I was agreeing with Bill O—I guess there is a first time for everything.<br /><br />I’m definitely not arguing for Deism—I think that God is still actively engaged with the universe. Since God set the universal constants and created the physical processes, that science has discovered, He can use them, tweak them or suspend them whenever he chooses. I would describe supernatural events as very rare, but possible. So, in most cases your pen falling to the earth can be explained by gravity; thunder and lightning can be explained by friction generated by weather disturbances; earthquakes can be explained by plate tectonics; and viruses becoming resistant to medicines can be explained by evolution. However, God can use these processes for His own purposes and glory. I see God as the ultimate chess player; He can see an unlimited number of steps ahead. He sparked the big bang and set up the physical laws so that intelligent life could evolve all the while tweaking things for his purposes. At times, such as the resurrection of Jesus, He momentarily altered physical processes.Keith Rozumalskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075074084646770559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539147287756218800.post-32722496065060725292011-02-20T08:48:48.386-08:002011-02-20T08:48:48.386-08:00You are agreeing with O'Reilly? Now I have fa...You are agreeing with O'Reilly? Now I have faith that anything is possible!<br /><br />The bigger question to me is not what brought the universe into existence (although the big bang has not naturalistic explanation) but why the universe continues to exist at all, or why there developed any sort of natural order to the laws of the universe. From my vantage point, everything operates by the Word of God, and if He were to stop speaking today, all would vanish. That is, his word continually upholds everything. Natural laws are his just as much as any supernatural event. This idea of a God who creates the universe and then sits back idle in heaven is a delusion of those who want to believe they control their own destinies and their actions are not being continually evaluated by a moral, personal deity. <br /><br />By the way, scientific laws were not the same at the creation of the universe as they are today? So why are we assuming that scientific laws will not change tomorrow? Science rests on faith of a constant universe, yet it also knows that there is nothing constant about the laws of the universe, we only have the illusion of that because our time here on Earth has been so short.Yeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296131184816004325noreply@blogger.com