Not exactly. I am more than happy with God creating anything at all by any rational naturalistic scientific means.
What if God just does miracles His non-rational, unscientific, non-naturalistic way? That would not suit you, right?
Sorry but I just don't see any evidence or signs of a miraculous anything ever happening anywhere. But what suits me is whatever is actually the truth not someone else's bald assertions or imaginings which are imo probably because they desperately want to believe in such a wondrous being rather than face a possibly less than reassuring reality.
My objections only begin if miraculous events can freely be inserted at any arbitrary point that just happen to suit an individuals own personal belief.
You mean like Jesus did, changing water to wine arbitrarily at the request of Mary?
There used to be an old comedy sitcom called "Bewitched" with Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery. People like to be enthralled by something magical which is probably why such things get added to otherwise more humdrum yarns.
I'm not convinced that the gospels are anything more than dramatic and embellished reconstructions by anonymous evangelists done at an altogether later time, while G. John of course has its own more individualistic spin which may have suited a specific audience of that time.
If you can keep religious belief and science in separate mental boxes then I'll not be complaining.
We are talking about God creating Cambrian fauna. How would you like me to separate that event into 2 separate boxes?
I see no rational reason to believe that such fauna were simply created as is. In a naturalistic world they must have evolved, you can't mix and match creationism with science.
The only other option is to demonstrate where the miraculous has happened so that I am reasonably convinced of it, but I suspect you won't be able to do that.
When a whole biome suddenly appears in the Cambrian and Eocene, against the usual evolutionary belief that things develop slowly and slowly diversify, you have no trouble accepting that irrationality. But when multiple new animals all seem to simultaneously arise with no precursors, you say I am being unreasonable to believe in creation? Would you like God to perform double-blind creations for you in a rational, naturalistic and scientific manner, with a panel of scientists writing a paper so that they can replicate it in a laboratory with an experiment and control? Would that "reasonably convince" you?
Again, what do you actually mean by "suddenly"? I already explained that "suddenly" here is in fact still probably something very gradual in human and evolutionary terms. Punctuated Equilibrium does not imply spontaneous creation. You really can't presume any miraculous events happened particularly since there is plenty of evidence of life existing long before the pre Cambrian, the "explosion" is greatly exaggerated sometimes, and yes much of it un-evidenced I suspect and besides "miracles" don't explain anything in an otherwise natural world. Any absence of specific evolutionary evidence is not evidence of absence.
