In perspective, if you look at the whole picture, then everything is created by god, from the flood to the laws of the universe.. If through these laws and facts we come by an explenation of what happened with the flood, that it might not have been god "directly" in charge of it, but an accumulation of events.. Then dont worry, because the basis behind those events were still created by god.. Which means that the totallity is still gods doing
.. Perhaps even purposely so..
I find it a lot more refreshing to have something I can observe and understand then to just assume it is something I will never understand ^^
So in perspective, your not taking god out of the picture.. Your just putting him in the bigger picture
.. He made the machine, eventhough we can slowly figure out how it works, the machine itself says "made by god" on the front
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