Iano, you are supporting my point then. Nature alone does not lead us to God.
I read people talking of 'ancient, ignorant' people coming up with the idea of god simply because a lightening strike killed their cow and I have to wonder. How would one (in any age) make such a leap. Too much exposure to too many movies depicting the idea I suppose.
There isn't enough information in nature alone to arrive at the conclusion "God". One would need a missing link in order to make the link (not that that has deterred our proto-feathered friends)
I think nature has two functions: an "I was blind" irritational-yet-unavoidable function and a "but now I see" (as described in my last post) confirmational function. Call nature repeated left jabs and "the law is a schoolteacher to lead you to Christ" as the knock out punch. That's how it was for me so its the only one I can comment on. Nature impinges on the man-external interface. The law making you realise you're dirt, works from within. The latter by far the least escapable of the two.
the question is whether raw nature without revelation teaches God to anybody or not?
I can but say "not".
This message has been edited by iano, 05-May-2006 12:28 AM