The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3744812
Posted By: Steve Shaw
17-Oct-15 - 08:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
"God is better seen as creating the universe right now, at all times. No suspension of "the laws of nature", the reverse in fact."

Well that looks mighty profound on the surface of it. Frankly, though, it's doesn't really matter when he created, or creates, it. The laws of nature do not provide for supernatural beings that never had a beginning nor end, nor do they provide for amazing creations from nothing. Worse, and unfortunately for poor old God, the laws of nature can explain everything we see in all its ordinary glory. So there is stuff we have yet to get our heads around, it's true. But there is every justification for saying that we will never give up looking, and no justification at all for saying that anything we can't currently explain is down to God. That's been tried down the ages and found horribly wanting. Use your brain for what it was meant to be used for, not for inventing fairy tales.