Re: Did God Put Ancient Earthquakes On Faults?
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Meanwhile Not Ready and many others claim that miracles of this sort are done by God within the laws of science. Not because he is forced to do them that way, but rather because he needs people to have faith in his existence even without irrefutable evidence.
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I love this idea of a vain, self-centred God who devotes all of his time to setting up tests of faith that us flawed, weak sinners will inevitably fail.
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So my question is were old time earthquakes that human science will never be able to investigate always on faults?
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These earthquakes are simultaneously both on-faults and not-on-faults, until such time as we have tools that allow us to observe them.
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And there is another question. Suppose there are some miscreants who deserve an earthquake now but don't live on a fault. Are we to assume thyat God used his omnipotence to forsee their sins and planned out the appropriate faults billions of years ago to punish them appropriately while still fooling the geologists?
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No. God uses lightning to deal with the sinners who don't live near fault lines.
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