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From: Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Observe the trend
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:27:56 +0000
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:14:27 +1100, MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 9/03/2025 8:59 pm, Martin Harran wrote:
>> On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 17:48:41 +1100, MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> 
>>> You're finally getting it! To creatures like us, special creation by God
>>> looks like magic, yes. God conceives in his mind and speaks into existence.
>> 
>> ""Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the
>> heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and
>> orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about
>> the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years
>> and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so
>> forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and
>> experience.
>> 
>> "Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a
>> Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking
>> nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such
>> an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a
>> Christian and laugh it to scorn."
>> 
>> St Augustine
>> 
>
>Augustine is referring to the _what_, not the _how_, right?

He is referring to exactly what you are doing.