In addition to miracles which supersede natural processes, the providential guidance of natural processes also seems miraculous to me. Whether guiding primordial life forms to a desired outcome including the evolution of man, or guiding the east wind which divided the red sea, both are miraculous. Every subatomic particle and every galaxy cluster is sustained by God, he is not subservient to natural laws in any old earth or theistic evolution viewpoint that I am aware of. I'm not dismissing anything about the creation account, but putting it in what seems to me to be the proper ancient context. Whether formed as is, or formed as a primordial singularity that was providentially guided into its present form, the creative decree of God by necessity preceded the creation itself, and that act of creation is miraculous.robbyyoung wrote:Hi Si,
If God implies that the causation of creation is via miracles, not natural processes, why is it so difficult to accept this fundamental attribute of God’s work? In other words, if God said He spoke all these things into immediate existence, science’s starting point begins with the natural processes already in place—complete with time, purpose, and matter. So where is the disconnect or controversy if miracles are the causation of creation? Why should God’s miraculous testimony of creation be dismissed and subservient to the very laws/knowledge that were created by him? The laws that govern the universe didn’t create themselves, they were spoken into existence like everything else. What are your pithy thoughts?
Blessings.
Some creationists suggest that everything was created with the appearance of age, so in a sense scientists are not wrong to extrapolate great age due to observation. Where the scientists err is not acknowledging the miraculous beginning where these things came into being fully formed, with the appearance of age intrinsic to them. It just seems odd that God at the moment of creation, would create tens of thousands of spurious ice core layers, normally deposited by the passing of seasonal cycles, or would have strategically positioned light particles from galaxies 10 billion light years away on earth's doorstep so that simple observation by humans would give them a false impression of age.