Hi MQ,
All very good hypothesis. However, if there's a scientific explanation for what happened, then by definition, it wouldn't be a miracle now would it? If there's a scientific explanation for how Mary wound up carrying a child, yet not having had any sexual relations with a man, that wouldn't be a miracle either. I'm just not sure you're giving God the credit that He rightfully deserves. Just as the creation of this realm from nothing, according to the Scriptures, there's no scientific explanation for any of the 'how' the creation came to be, if there were, then it wouldn't be a miracle. There was no big bang and then space particles coalesced into all the heavenly bodies that we see. First of all the earth likely wouldn't have been the first heavenly body created as the Scriptures of God declare.
Me, I'm satisfied that God did it all. It was a miracle wrought by His mighty hand and there aren't any scientific or natural explanations for any of it. But, I believe God. I know that He did create this realm in which we live in 6 fairly normal days, as relates to the length of the days. I know that He did each of the tasks that He proclaims to have done within the time span of one rotation of the earth once it was created spinning on its axis.
I also know that He did it about 6,000 years ago as He explains to us through the genealogical records from Adam to Noah and then to Abraham and beyond. How do I 'know' that. Because I believe God. There is nothing that is impossible for God and there is no issue with which He need be deceitful or lie to us about. He did it. He explained the time span in which He did it, even repeating it twice to His people in the wilderness. Once we understand and believe that, the 6,000 year age of the creation is a pretty simple mathematical calculation.
However, it does require that we stand against the teachings of the great scientific minds of our time as regards the age of the creation. But surely anyone can see that they've got it all wrong in every piece. The scientific explanation starts off with the stars being older than the earth. That the earth coalesced at some point after the stars came to exist. The scientific explanation then goes on to tell us that all that is, was actually created from some previously existing matter, even though they've made up this fairy tale that it's some infinitely infinitesimal spec of some special matter. None of that fits with the account that God has given us through His people. The people that Paul writes to us were entrusted with the very oracles of God.
God raised up Israel for a couple of specific purposes. One was to record His revelation to us as to who He is and all that He has done that we might have the life that we live and all that is necessary to sustain it. The second was that they were to slaughter the Lamb of God to bring salvation even unto the ends of the earth. They were God's people raised up since the days of Abraham to do the things that they did.
God bless,
Ted
Even what is natural is God-made, therefore miracle. The fact these things happen WHEN they do, to me is more relevant than how.
I think I'm giving God more credit than those who look at 'miracle' with mere superstitious consideration (No, I don't mean you). For example, I have seen that the further back scientists look into the makeup of the universe, macro and micro, the more I see the work of God. Their notions are confused, some made up, some misunderstood, but the farther they go, the more can be seen either God's wisdom, or at the least, a merging of natural and metaphysical, science and philosophy.
When they said, "Big Bang", we were thinking, "Well, why not? Let there be light!" Einstein was saying time is relative. If so, why can't the inventor of time manipulate it to his good pleasure? Why can't he make Adam 25 actual years old on the day he made him? How do we calculate such things —by our concepts or by God's? How fast, judging by the amount of time it took (at the speed of time 6000 years ago), did the early universe actually move, expand? Yet light, the clock surfing that expansion —why could it not pass through several billions of years? What equations do we have disproving it happened within 6 days as counted 6000 years ago?
I'm not saying that is how it works. I'm just saying there is more to God than any of us knows. He does not need to work within any concepts we put out there for him, nor even within principles he set out by which his universe operates. They do not govern him.
When they say, 'calculations made on probability', I'm thinking, "Probability"??? Even plain logic says only one thing can happen. So how can anything else be probable? That is just our brains saying, "I don't know." God causes. It is self-contradictory to say chance can cause anything. They say, 'pops in and out of existence' with no predictability, and I'm thinking "coming into existence? Now who would be in charge of that?"
No, Ted. The list goes on and on. God causes all things including all details, and is WAY ahead of us on understanding it. I see his attribute of "Immanence" in the behavior of sub-particle energy/matter, so that it could even partially explain how his love permeates all fact. This point of view does not deny God of any glory concerning his works and deeds, compared to any other human point of view.