When you see something unexplainable, do you immediately conclude it is God?

Question

Or do you seek a logical explanation for the situation?

Answer 1

I don't conclude anything is god, so I have the go with seek logical explanation

Answer 2

Even when I went through a born again phase, I would seek a logical explanation for things. This annoyed the hell out of the other BAs, who would see Jesus in the halo of a street light and stuff like that. It probably speeded up my exit from this phase.

Anyway, two concepts are useful here: Occam's Razor, and God of the Gaps. Occam's Razor is the idea that the explanation that requires the least suspension of disbelief--i.e. is closest to the laws of logic and nature as we know them--is the most likely to be true. God of the Gaps is the tendency to attribute anything we don't or can't understand to God. The side effect is that God's realm shrinks as we are able to explain more and more without his help.

Answer 3

Yes!

My immediate response is to conclude that an unexplainable event is some form of "divine intervention".

My secondary response is to seek a logical explanation for the event.

Answer 4

Ofcourse I seek an explanation. If you assumed everything to be God (if you believe in God), where would you get in life?

Intellectuals always seek answers. Those that thought that lightening came from Zeus and that the sun was some mighty God never contributed anything to this world (besides some good literature). The intellectuals who didn't settle for it being God are the ones who mapped the stars in the sky and explained a whole lot of other explainable things.

A world where we settled to attributings things to a God would be quite a boring one.

Answer 5

First, I don't consider God and a logical explanation mutually exclusive. The way you stated your question is calling anyone who attributes anything to God illogical.

If that is the purpose of your question, then you appear to be one of those who limits the answers he is willing to accept and therefore refuse to consider all rational possibilities.

That is an illogical approach. There is no need to constantly attempt to phrase questions in such a way as to insult those who have a relationship with God.

Answer 6

Depends. Why does food give us energy? Why do birds fly? Why can I see pictures? Explainable.

Why, on the most basic biological level, my body can translate nitrogen and deoxyribose patterns into proteins that make me able to type this sentence? Unexplainable. Think about it for a second. There has to be something out there that encoded that into whatever makes ribosomes work.

Answer 7

No, I do not immediately conclude that it is God.

That being said logic/science and faith/God are not mutually exclusive.

To me one of the biggest wonders of the universe has to be ugly rock stars marrying supermodels...definitely unexplainable.

Answer 8

I'm always ready to go either way. Good question! And since when does a logical explanation prove absense of spirit? A logical eplanation just makes it funnier. Don't you imagine that life would love to tease people who expect spirit everywhere? Blessed is she who can laugh at herself, for she will never fail to be amused.

Answer 9

I usually am perplexed when i see something like that.......and i have found that when i try to find a logical explanation....i end up even more confused.....I come to the realization that there are some things that can't be explained.....

Answer 10

No. There is the Power of God and evil powers at work all around us. But I do believe things are not coincidences or luck as God has ultimate control over all creation. I look to The Lord for my guidance and discernment. God bless.