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    Challenges→Conceiving of God and science as competing explanations fails to grasp the relationship between God and the natural world.

    Some theological traditions, including occasionalism (Malebranche) and divine conservationism, hold that God is the proximate cause of all natural events.

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    • 1.If God's power is infinite and omnipotent, He cannot be genuinely limited by independent causal powers in creation.
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    • 2.Continuous divine conservation of being requires active divine involvement in sustaining each moment of existence.
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    • 3.Occasionalism elegantly solves the mind-body interaction problem by making God the sole bridge between mental and physical.
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    • 1.If God is the proximate cause of all events including human actions, moral responsibility and desert become philosophically incoherent.
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    • 2.The occasionalist position makes God causally responsible for all evils, moral wrongs, and suffering in creation.
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    • 3.Empirical science successfully explains natural events through secondary causes without invoking God for each occurrence.
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