Can science discover supernatural activity even though science might not call it that?

[Mervin_Bitikofer]

@T_aquaticus

[They say] “We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it.” You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.–William of Conches

He [William of Conches] is an interesting character for Creationists to take stock of. Here is another quote attributed to him (back in the 12th century no less!) as he even then rejected literalistic readings of Genesis.

“The authors of Truth are silent on matters of natural philosophy, not because these matters are against the faith, but because they have little to do with the upholding of such faith, which is what those authors were concerned with.”

M-D. Chenu. Nature, Man and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West, Chicago University Press, 1968 (as cited by Hannam in “God’s Philosophers” p. 63).

Thanks for bringing him up here. I wish we knew more about him.

[Mike_Gantt]

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