Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea XXXXV (Miracles or Occasional Causes)

In this blog, I will deal with the acts of God beyond His act of creation. Since God has denied the reality of the universe to us, but gave us a degree of independence, God must act miraculously if man’s evilness exceeds man’s control and if man leaves the true path of development. Such necessary acts of God have become known as miracles in religions. Scientifically, these acts are known as occasional causes. Today, man’s independence has led to the ungodly rise of atheism.

Here are the current arguments of atheists. They say that God does not exist. They make this statement because God cannot be sensed. However, they cannot sense God only because they won’t use metaphysics. Nor can they find the forces of God because they can’t find any atoms in the universe. Since they won’t use metaphysics and cannot find any atoms in the universe, they promote Darwin’s evolutionary theory and the Big Bang theory. They also smash protons to find free or unstructured physical particles and seek a single mathematical theory of everything in the universe. At this time, atheists have had no success. Unfortunately, they are luring many ‘life scientists’ into their way of thinking. So, more psychologists, medical doctors, etc. have become atheists.

Atheists are supported by many physical scientists because physicists have found many physical laws after modern science emerged in the 17th century. Such physical laws have been proven and can predict realities such as tomorrow’s weather, gas milage of a specific car, and how to convert solar cells into electricity. Such laws work locally but do not tell us how all things work in the universe. We have no ability to know all things in the universe because we cannot cope with an infinite number of concepts and today’s imperfect symbolic languages. So, God’s miracles are always necessary.

The wars of the 20th and the 21st century were the result of man’s evil desires and ignorance about God. In the USA today, crime and drug use increases, the lack of aesthetics in human life, and the turn away from God and the founding U.S. documents are only a few signs that tell me that God will act miraculously. Such an act might be already felt in your soul.