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:::OK, I follow you. So how do you decide which observations have a natural explanation, and which have a supernatural explanation? After all, the Lithium abundance *can* be predicted using the laws of physics (that's part of the Big Bang theory). It seems to me that if a natural theory can indeed explain the observation, then maybe the supernatural intervention must have come even earlier in time. --[[User:Mackronking2|Mackronking2]] 02:11, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
:::OK, I follow you. So how do you decide which observations have a natural explanation, and which have a supernatural explanation? After all, the Lithium abundance *can* be predicted using the laws of physics (that's part of the Big Bang theory). It seems to me that if a natural theory can indeed explain the observation, then maybe the supernatural intervention must have come even earlier in time. --[[User:Mackronking2|Mackronking2]] 02:11, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
::::A prediction being fulfilled supplies support for a theory, but it doesn't prove it, particularly if more than one theory makes the same prediction. In a sense, creationists have two options to consider: Did something happen naturally, or did it happen supernaturally. Atheists, in contrast, cannot (whilst remaining atheists) consider the possibility of a supernatural explanation, thus ruling some explanations out before even being considered. Just as various theories have their supporters and detractors, and just as some evidence seems to support one theory over another but other evidence might support the the latter over the former, whether a natural or a supernatural explanation is the correct one is often a matter for research and debate. And even if a supernatural cause is agreed upon, there may still be debate about just how that was done. YECs agree, for example, that God was responsible for Noah's Flood, but did He do that by means of collapsing a vapour canopy, by hitting the oceans with a giant meteor, by setting off a catastrophic plate tectonics scenario, or what? (NB: I'm not suggesting that each of those examples is currently considered or equally popular among YECs.) In fact, everything is up for grabs, so to speak, except for where God has specifically said that He did something. He said that He created the universe in six days, so that rules out the Big Bang scenario, but it doesn't rule out Russell Humphreys' superficially-similar model, which for all I know might predict the Lithium levels the same as the Big Bang does. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:21, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
== Young earth creationist view ==
== Young earth creationist view ==