You are something else- a classical thinker. You have rediscovered the view held by Pascal and Newton and the rest. There is more than nature, something above nature, but the Divine does not tinker with every little aspect of creation. Rather He established laws and what happens within nature is within those laws (normally).
Patrick is not a modernist. He just trots out modernist jargon when it suits him. He is his own standard, and reality is defined by how he feels about things. That is postmodern.