Originally Posted by
KWCrazy
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In a world governed by the laws of science no miracles are possible because by definition miracles violate those laws.
Mrs Lurking said:
No. You botched that one majorly. Just because God sets up natural processes to operate within his creation according to various of his "laws" does NOT AT ALL mean that God's miracles some how "violates" his own laws! You need some major remedial Sunday School work on that.
Actually, most miracles do not violate the laws of nature, except for a moment of discontinuity.
When Jesus turned the water into wine, everything, including the water, followed the laws of nature before the miracle, and everything, including the wine followed the laws of nature after the miracle.
On the old TV show Bewitched, everything the camera recorded, including Endora turning Larry Tate into a bird followed the laws of nature. Of course, in that case, the camera was turned off while Larry moved out of the picture, and a bird was brought in, while Jesus actually changed the water into wine and did not need to resort to trickery, but the point is the laws of nature themselves were not violated.
In math/computer terms the laws of nature are algorithms/applets while the objects whose behavior they describe are data. Changing the data does not mean changing the algorithm.
That's why it's so frustrating when Creationists accuse other Christians of atheism (in particular of not believing in God the Creator) just because we accept a different set of data than they do. They believe in only one particular interpretation of Genesis. We see several interpretations, and let the evidence of God's Creation itself tell us which one is the right one.