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Quote by: RealRockingham  Because they don't have to.
A god that works VIA natural processes is not incompatible with science. Thus their is no scientific neccesity to take it further. |
The problem here, though, is that liberal Christianity makes ZERO sense. The bible is either the inspired word of god or it isn't. One or the other. It isn't the inspired word of god for you and just a book for me. It can't be. It has to be one or the other. So, liberal Christians who sort of take a lighweight figurative view of the bible make no sense. I have far more respect for fundamentalists who, though completely wrong, are at least slightly more intellectually honest than their "progressive" peers. Liberal Christians pick and choose which parts of the bible to observe while discarding most of it. "Genesis is a myth, but Jesus was real. God just
couldn't hate homosexuals even though the bible is black and white about it. The old testament says 'an eye for an eye', the new testament says 'turn the other cheek', but we do neither."
Finally, saying "god works through natural processes" is no different from saying "Zeus makes lightning through storm systems" or "It's Apollo that keeps the nuclear furnace of the sun going." It's intellectually bankrupt. We can always add a fictional level to any natural phenomenon but with evidence it stays just that: fiction.