Certainly, Nature and Human Behavior are Not Fully Predictable
Kevin R. Henke
September 23, 2022
For whatever reason, Lundahl (2022q) decided not to comment on Henke (2022y). The title of Henke (2022y) is: “Mr. Lundahl Tries to Tell God and Everyone Else What God Does and Doesn’t Do.” I wanted to see how Mr. Lundahl would have responded to my observation. Oh well, perhaps he’ll come back to it later.
Lundahl (2022q) then proceeds to Henke (2022z), which is entitled: “The Bible Claims that with Jesus Around, Nature was Unpredictable.” Lundahl (2022q) responds by simply stating:
“Nature wasn't unpredictable. Miraculous events were. Nature was the routine between them, just as it is the routine between any other unpredicted events now. We never, ever, predict all of our existence. We never, ever, predict all events. A few months ago, Ukraine was not predicted capable of pushing Russia back.”
What I was saying is that with Jesus around, supposedly his companions could never know when a miracle might interrupt the natural status quo. Simple events in nature, such as calculating the speed of a rock falling to the ground, certainly can be done with the laws of physics. However, nature and human activities are often too complex to fully predict. There are too many variables. This is why meteorologists have difficulty predicting the weather in many parts of the world beyond a couple of days or why the best experts back in February 2022 failed to predict how Ukraine has survived the Russian onslaught. Nevertheless, there’s no evidence that anything miraculous is occurring in nature or in human activities. If miracles occur, they would certainly be unpredictable because they would, by my and most people’s definitions (Henke 2022a), violate the laws of chemistry and physics. You can’t use F=ma to describe a miracle, but the equation works fine for a rocket launch.