TFS Wrote:I didn't know whether to post this is the religion forum or here. I copy pasted this post from the Evidence God Exists PART II thread because it highlights a big problem a lot of theists I have met have not realized. I've heard many theists explain that they believe their deity is 'everything' or is 'nature' yet some of these theists have a problem believing that all organisms share a common ancestor or that life originated by natural processes. The problem is that if they describe their god as 'nature' then there should be no problem in accepting that their god works with natural mechanisms.
Bolded because you are right. Also, if they believe that 'God' is more than 'nature'... yet still responsible for nature: it is still true that 'God' works with 'natural' mechanisms
In these cases, much of the 'work of God' would be completely indistinguishable from 'nature'.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
