(June 14, 2015 at 12:49 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(June 14, 2015 at 12:22 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: More seriously, what prevents God from using the natural explainable phenomena of this world in ways that are inexplicable for their timing and efficacy?
How can timing and efficacy be inexplicable? Having a helicopter performing rescue patrols during a flood is not "inexplicable" -- it is expected. Citing that as evidence of God's hand at work is silly, because you have no way of knowing that it is God's work and not man's -- aside from assuming what you wish to demonstrate.
By the way, that's called begging the question, and -- you guessed it! -- it is also fallacious thinking.
My, you're on a roll today!
It was cited as a joke.
Other "coincidences" may be less easily explained away as having natural causes.