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From: Mark Isaak <specimenNOSPAM@curioustaxon.omy.net>
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Subject: Re: Paradoxes
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 09:30:04 -0800
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On 2/3/25 1:26 PM, MarkE wrote:
> On 3/02/2025 5:45 pm, MarkE wrote:
>> On 3/02/2025 4:23 am, Mark Isaak wrote:
>>> On 1/26/25 9:29 PM, MarkE wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> An atheistic worldview may preference naturalistic options, and a 
>>>> theistic worldview may preference the God option. We may give more 
>>>> weight and consideration to a particular explanation based, in part, 
>>>> on our belief.
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, science itself can tell us nothing about this postulated 
>>>> agent. That is the task of other epistemological domains 
>>>> (philosophy, theology, personal experience, etc). Nevertheless, 
>>>> science can provide an evidential pointer to God as a possible 
>>>> explanation.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> If I believed in the god you believe in, I would be an atheist.
>>>
>>
>> How so?
>>
>> Just to clarify, I believe that the material world and the study and 
>> understanding of it reveals much about its creator, e.g. "The heavens 
>> declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his 
>> hands." (Psalm 19:1). This is so-called "natural theology". But 
>> science has no access to the things of God available only through 
>> "special revelation".
>>
> 
> "By examining the structure and function of a snapdragon bloom, I might 
> reasonably conclude that the God who created the snapdragon is powerful 
> and wise—that is natural theology. By examining the context and meaning 
> of John 3:16, I might reasonably conclude that God is loving and 
> generous—that is revealed theology."
> 
> https://www.gotquestions.org/natural-theology.html

You have to engage with the criticisms of natural theology if you want 
to espouse it. Can you do that? Do you even know what they are?

-- 
Mark Isaak
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That
doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.'" - Mary Doria Russell