Is String Theory Supernatural?

I cannot remember seeing this argument. Evidence of evolution is evidence that YEC beliefs are unfounded, but not that religion itself is wrong. The latter argument is clearly wrong. Is this effect something other than constraining your beliefs?

I don't think the above is completely accurate or at least it seems incomplete in a way that casts a bad light. GDR does not believe that God dictated the Bible. Thus a lot of what is written in the Bible is the interpretation of what men believed about God.On the other hand, GDR accepts essentially everything the Gospels say that Jesus taught and did as fact. Where other parts of the Bible conflict with that, they must be wrong.

Why would this prevent GDR from believing those third party reports are true? For example, I am sure GDR has said in the past the he believes Jesus performed the miracles described in the Gospels. I don't find GDR's interpretations of the Gospels to be liberal. Perhaps that's my own bias, but it seems to me that any 'liberalness' GDR uses is applied elsewhere in the new Testament. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I understand that you did not mean liberal as a swear word. But I don't consider Faith's beliefs to a baseline to measure whether someone's interpretation of the Bible is improper or subjective. You are using liberal in exactly the way Faith would, and I don't see how using liberal in such a way isn't a judgement on GDR's beliefs.

Miracles violate the rules. In the case of feeding the multitude, we don't have evidence that the event never happened. Instead you have concluded that it could not using strictly deductive reasoning based on your experience that scientific laws are never broken.Contrast that type of miracle with a literal Genesis-style Creation Week. We are not required to merely rely on conservation of energy or matter to deductively conclude that the Creation Week never happened. Instead we have objective evidence that the earth, moon, sun, etc are older than 6000 years old, and we have evidence of what actually did happen.GDR can accept that science has established that God, despite being omnipotent, simply did not intervene in the way described in Genesis. But GDR is not forced to accept the same thing regarding the feeding of the 5000. Yes it violates the rules, but God can do that.

Yes one could do that, but essentially nobody does. I don't believe very many people are Omphalists. Even the most ardent Bible literalist rejects the idea that God hid old fossils and radioactive materials in the ground just to make the earth appear to be old. Instead, the literalists go the route of simply saying that science is wrong about aging. The problem with your logic/description is that you lump all scientific findings in the same boat. I think some scientific findings and conclusions are qualitatively different in basis and logic than others. GDR may actually do some of the things you suggest. I do not know everything he believes, but the particular examples of Jesus feeding a multitude and Creation week do not, in my opinion, fit the pattern you describe. I'm not making the argument that you should be convinced. I'm suggesting that GDR's beliefs are not as inconsistent as you describe. What you have laid out is the 'God of Gaps' which is the situation where God diminishes as our knowledge of science becomes more complete. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.