General discussion on ID, God, and evolution

Thanks for the response, Bill! If I answer your questions, will you answer mine (from my original post)? :slight_smile:

I see mountains of evidence that evolutionary processes are at work in the natural world, but to what extent? By “to what extent” are you asking whether I see evidence for something other than evolutionary processes? If I understand ID’s propositions correctly then that “something other” would be God reaching down and performing a miracle now and then to help the natural world along when the evolutionary process aren’t up to the task of populating the earth. My twofold answer is, I don’t know that I’d recognize evidence for those miracles to fill the gaps if I saw them (I haven’t seen that ID has shown me how to recognize those miracles) and it appears from the evidence that the evolutionary processes that God set in motion are doing quite a job, the earth being, after all, full of strange creatures, beyond count.

I haven’t ever been afraid of ID, really, or even of being a science stopper for that matter. A decade before Black Box I was fearlessly talking up the virtues of a 6000-year-old earth, a pre-flood super oxygenated atmosphere that facilitated the growth of giant animals, and Dinosaurs that got off the ark and died out because of the post flood climate change!! If I wasn’t afraid of bringing that stuff to the table, I sure wouldn’t be afraid of suggesting that God helped evolution out with a few miracles here and there, if it looked to me like that’s what was going on!

I’ll add, and forgive me for digressing, but I’m not afraid of miracles! I ask God for them. I pray for people to be healed. I’m a full-on Jesus, Bible nut that thinks it’s all true! I have personal testimonies of miraculous, to the penny monetary provision, God speaking, me following, and cool stuff happening, etc. So, I just might be more into miracles more than most ID folks would be comfortable with!!! :smiley: I’m silly enough to use my real name and hijack Peaceful Science threads to discuss the miraculous with a bunch of folks that live by the scientific method!! So, if I saw any evidence to support ID’s claims, I’d feel free to speak up.

Alrighty then, Bill, my friend. How about my original questions? I’ve asked similar questions before and haven’t gotten engagement from ID folks. I mean, maybe they’re uninteresting, bad questions, and that’s why. If that’s the case, feel free to let me know that!

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