faith v credulity

Originally posted by taughtbuffet ↑

Wafflehead,

thank you for your post,

my comment, "I never have a battle of wits with someone unarmed" was a joke, and DBT9 got the joke as he replied I should have been a comedian

you say,

The answer to one of those questions might then be that certain aspects of the universe are profoundly beyond the logic of science.

I say,

the answer to plenty of questions about aspects of the universe are beyond the logic of science,

simple questions like,

if you take the following two facts about gravity into account

http://www.astro.umass.edu/~arny/jg_esc_veltut.html

The gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses, being larger for larger masses.

The gravitational force between two objects depends on their separation, being weaker the farther apart the objects are

then every planet in the solar system should be in size order proportionate to their distance from the sun, or the gravity wouldn't work properly,

e.g,

every planet past Jupiter should have more mass than Jupiter as the gravity from the sun gets weaker the further out you go, but we know that's simply not the case, why?

scientist will say that it's momentum, but using the laws of gravity, Neptune and Pluto would simply drift away in space,

cheers

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I think he was being a tad sarcastic.
Anyway, the conformation of the solar system is as a result of natural forces. A combination of centripetal motion, gravity, collisions on a monumental scale, the fact that we do not circumambulate the sun but rather orbit in a fashion behind the receding sun, caught in the gravitational slip-stream as it moves through space at about 88,000 miles per hour.

What then are natural forces? None other than the forces of creation. Your God did not mix and match a solar system and arrange its structure in opposition to His natural forces of creation. Every structure in the universe is as it should be.

So we don't find constructs in the fabric of the universe that contradict the natural order because your God is the natural order. From the evolution of mater, to the evolution of solar systems, to the evolution of life. All fit within the natural order which is none other than the Will of your God.

My point being that our solar systems confirmation can be explained because your God gave us dominion over nature and thus we can understand to some degree the processes of natural forces He employed in developing the evolving universe.