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Originally Posted by zeek
There are numerous problems with your theory. I'll mention two. 1) people who expect God's intervention to "clean up the environmental mess" tend to live in environmentally irresponsible ways and to accept or promote environmentally irresponsible public policies.
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The people I know cannot be characterized that way, whereas many of the most notable proponents for various schemes to address this have the biggest carbon footprints, just as Ohio has pointed out. Unless all those calling on others to change are in fact living in a way that is carbon neutral they need to stop telling others what to do.
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Originally Posted by zeek
2) the notion that God intervenes in history is not scientifically tenable. In other words, there are simpler more probable explanations for historical events of the past then divine intervention. Which is not to say it's theologically impossible since it is proposed in the Bible that for God all things are possible. But science works in terms of probability. And when things can be explained more simply without recourse to supernatural causation, such explanations are more probable. Just sayin'.
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Well tell that to the historians that study WWII.
The Germans were ahead of us in the development of both missiles and nuclear fission. Yet they were unable to make a bomb. Lucky or God's intervention?
If Germany had not attacked Russia mainland Europe would almost certainly remained in their hands. Lucky or God's intervention?
After Pearl Harbor if Germany had not declared war on the US it would have been very difficult to justify our going to war with Germany, again leaving Europe in Germany's hands. Lucky or God's intervention?
or look at the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Incredibly lucky or God's intervention?
or look at the return of Israel to the Good land. Incredible coincidence or fulfillment of prophecy?