The Mystical Leak (Week 5 Post 2)

There is a leak somewhere in my wall. The puzzling part is that it is aninternal wall on the garage level of the house with no piping running throughthe wall all the way to the top. If I were to claim that this was proof ofdivinity, a miracle if ou will, then I could excuse myself from looking anyfurther for the source of the problem. I cold chalk it up to God's will or God'splan, or proof of events that lack scientific explanation and relent to doingnothing about it. Or I could continue to look at all possibilities and causesrelentlessly until I found the source.

In my opinion this rationale can be used for all religious claims of divinity.This occured to me with watching the Polkinghorne interview. Anything currentlyindeterminable through scientific terms was considered an indication of a higherpower with limitless abilities rather than simply the limits of our currentunderstanding. Polkinghorne states that the complexity of nature nd certainelements within are undoubtedly proof of intelligent design, specifically, inthis case, by the Christian God, but some may think that this evidence supportstheir belief that we were "planted" here by aliens or advanced life forms. IfPolkinghornes theory were to hold, it would have to acknowledge that his socalled, proof of divinity cannot be limited and naturally lead to theimplication that the Christian God was in fact the creator of such complexities.To be fair it could be any of the gods or aliens or could stem from somethingcompletely different that we lack the ability to comprehend.