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    Conceiving of God and science as competing explanations f... — Carmelics
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    Conceiving of God and science as competing explanations fails to grasp the relationship between God and the natural world.

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    • 1.Treating God and science as rivals implicitly conceives of God as one more cause within the natural world.
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    • 2.If God exists, God is the creator of the natural world and is not a cause within it.
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    • 3.Therefore the rivalry framing misrepresents what God is.
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    • 1.Some theological traditions, including occasionalism (Malebranche) and divine conservationism, hold that God is the proximate cause of all natural events.
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    • 2.If God directly causes natural phenomena, then positing God and natural explanations as competing accounts of the same events is conceptually coherent.
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    • 3.Therefore the 'different levels' response fails for traditions that reject secondary causation as genuinely efficacious.
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's model of divine action requires God to intervene in the natural causal order in particular ways, as in miracles or quantum-level guidance.
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    • 2.When God acts within the physical order to produce specific outcomes, God functions as a cause among causes in the very sense the claim denies is possible.
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    • 3.The claim that God is never a cause within the natural world is therefore in tension with orthodox accounts of special divine action and miracle.
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    Some philosophers believe that the randomness of Darwinian natural selection rules out the possibility of any kind of divine guidance being exercised through such a process. Some thinkers, including both some atheists and some proponents of what is called “creation science,” believe that evolution and God are rivals, mutually exclusive hypotheses about the origins of the natural world. What can be explained scientifically needs no religious explanation. However, this is far from obviously true;
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