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    Supports→God can act directly in nature without contravening the laws of nature by acting in quantum events

    An agent that does not displace natural causes is not intervening in violation of natural law

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    Advances in twentieth-century physics, including the theories of general and special relativity, chaos theory, and quantum theory, overturned the mechanical clockwork view of creation. In the latter half of the twentieth century, chaos theory and quantum physics have been explored as possible avenues to reinterpret divine action. John Polkinghorne (1998) proposed that chaos theory not only presents epistemological limits to what we can know about the world, but that it also provides the world wi

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