Originally posted by Jerry Smith
Nick, maybe this will help:
Deduction: if I don't spend some time with every supernatural possibility, I may unwittingly exlude the truth from my considerations, and therefore come to the wrong conclusion.
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Do you see?
Yes, I see. And it makes perfect sense that you may exclude the truth if you don't consider more than just the Biblical account of creation. I'm not arguing with that.
But so what? You have to start somewhere. While it is certainly possible that supernatural causes occurred and we have no written record whatsoever of that account, it wouldn't make sense to start there, now would it?
So just start at what you know. If you find out that things start to make more sense when you consider the Babylonian account of creation, for example (to deliberately avoid using the Biblical account), then that should steer you more in the right direction than if you simply refused to consider ANY non-material causes.
Some of your logic is ok, but you're deliberately trying to make the problem more complex than it is just so you can justify ruling out ANY attempt to bring in supernatural causes.
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