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Miracle Physics

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God's miracles are not confined to the microcosm ... there are macro-miracles as well.

If He can feed 5000 with a 2-piece fish dinner, He can flood the entire earth with water.

And if He chose not to do one, He is not obligated to do the other.
 
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this OP tickles me. Straight from "Cartoon Phyics" to "Miracle Physics."

The funniest part is that AV is the only one who sees any difference.

Clearly he holds the Bible to a higher standard of slapstick.
 
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If He can feed 5000 with a 2-piece fish dinner, He can flood the entire earth with water.

My friend, Dan, once made a perpetual motion machine! Really worked too!

I will sell it to you for $5,000. It will solve all your energy needs and you'll never have to pay an electricity bill or buy gasoline again, for your entire life!

Interested?

If not, why not?
 
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This still does not explain who an all-knowing, all-powerful god would need to tinker with his creation. He would not need to invoke miracles, if he had the capabilities you claim and made his creation perfect as you claim.
You a deist, are you?
 
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You a deist, are you?

You're evading, aren't you?

All of a sudden, your cartoon physics don't seem worthy of worship anymore, do they?
 
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Here is a brief description of cartoon physics, from Wikipedia:
Using the above definition as a template, I propose the following definition for miracle physics:
Why should Bible-believing Christians subordinate miracle physics to normal physics in any case where normal physics would contradict the Bible?

Because, just like cartoon physics, those "miracle" physics are make-believe.

In fact, cartoon physics seem to have one up on miracle physics because cartoon physics are at least observable by watching cartoons. Where might I observe miracle physics?
 
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Because, just like cartoon physics, those "miracle" physics are make-believe.

In fact, cartoon physics seem to have one up on miracle physics because cartoon physics are at least observable by watching cartoons. Where might I observe miracle physics?
Reading about them. Just a slight difference to the cartoon version.
 
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Reading about them. Just a slight difference to the cartoon version.

Indeed -- only changed 4-5 words between definitions (he changed the same word twice, so it's debatable whether to count it twice)

I think what AV has managed to illustrate is that there's not much difference between Bible stories and Bugs Bunny cartoons.

(and to tell the truth, there's a lot of wisdom in that wascally wabbit!) ;)
 
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