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From: MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Paradoxes
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:57:58 +1100
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On 24/01/2025 2:17 pm, Mark Isaak wrote:
> On 1/22/25 4:37 AM, MarkE wrote:
>> On 22/01/2025 1:56 pm, Mark Isaak wrote:
>>> On 1/17/25 2:59 PM, MarkE wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here's a serious question regarding nonintervention, from genuine 
>>>> wondering on my part. It seems to me there are different forms of 
>>>> theistic evolution with respect to intervention, which might be 
>>>> characterised as:
>>>>
>>>> 1. E.g. speciation "download" (significant interventions; detectable)
>>>> 2. Nudging the molecules (subtle interventions; detectable in 
>>>> principle)
>>>> 3. Quantum event loading (probabilistic interventions; undetectable?)
>>>> 4. Pure front-loading (initial intervention only; undetectable)
>>>
>>> I take issue with your nomenclature. Those items (1-4) are not forms 
>>> of theistic anything. They are forms of unknown superpower 
>>> intervention. Even if one of those scenarios is fact, there is no 
>>> reason to say that the actor behind it is a god.
>>>
>>
>> I'm okay with "God" equals "unknown superpower" for the purpose of 
>> this discussion.
> 
> You seem to have a very naturalistic view of God.
> 

I'm really just acknowledging that, in this context, it's only possible 
to make a generic reference to the inferred supernatural agent.