Let's try this again, I believe that the main problem between special creaionists and evolutionary creationists is not how they view God's initial act of creation but how they view his continued interaction with creation. As this is a generalisation there are going to be people from both sides who actually agree on this point, but this is one of the issues that I feel is most important to our understanding of who God is and how he relates to us and the rest of his creation.
The distinction I see is that the evolutionary creationist is happy to assert that God continues to be involved in an immanent manner with his creation, while the special creationist will mark a delineation between the actual initial creative act and God's providence, citing that God leaves all other things up to the natural processes that he has created and put in order. If anything I would say that this last position is deistic, but I often get in trouble for saying this so I'll be clearer, I do not deny that in the special creationist's theology God continues to interact with humanity, what I am objecting to is the distance that is placed between God and the rest of his creation.
A definition of providence:
Nature is under God's intimate care and while his care normally is predicatble and consistent such that we have been able to construct "laws" to define such care, he can and does act within creation in ways that contradict our understanding and these formed patterns, we normally call such actions miracles.
The distinction I see is that the evolutionary creationist is happy to assert that God continues to be involved in an immanent manner with his creation, while the special creationist will mark a delineation between the actual initial creative act and God's providence, citing that God leaves all other things up to the natural processes that he has created and put in order. If anything I would say that this last position is deistic, but I often get in trouble for saying this so I'll be clearer, I do not deny that in the special creationist's theology God continues to interact with humanity, what I am objecting to is the distance that is placed between God and the rest of his creation.
A definition of providence:
Nature is under God's intimate care and while his care normally is predicatble and consistent such that we have been able to construct "laws" to define such care, he can and does act within creation in ways that contradict our understanding and these formed patterns, we normally call such actions miracles.
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