"God has clearly revealed Himself in nature" - True or false? Why?

Answer 1

It never ceases to amaze me, how so many sheep say ridiculous things like, nature is here, that's how we know god made it. Or, they point out particularly beautiful natural formations and use those as proof. How naive, how childish, how moronic.
You people would want more hard evidence when buying a car than you've ever demanded from your religion.

Answer 2

A good answer to this question must address the definitional problems with the statement. I will for this argument that God is referring to Judeo-Christian understanding. Given that, the key word in the expression is revealed. There are two major ways to interpret this word in this context. If revealed means that God is showing an aspect of Himself in nature, then I would be hesitant to say the statement is true. It verges on idea that God is in the trees. If revealed means showing God creative power, then yes, it is true.

Answer 3

I say, True, but I also believe in God so I have a more biased opinion than someone who dosen't.
Nature is beautiful, yes, but it can also be savage. This is actually where I find the beauty.
Despite whatever may happen, eventually, even if it takes 'thousands' of years nature will reclaim what was taken.
No matter how fast the animal, there will be one faster, and hungrier to boot.
There is a constant cycle, systems within systems, that no matter how complicated and interuppted will begin again.
We may throw it off a bit, but eventually it resumes, surprising us when we thought that life had ceased.
That is where I find God. In the complexity of the enviroment. It has flaws, but those flaws just make it more fascinating.

Answer 4

Paul, in Romans 1.

It wasn't intuitively obvious to me when I was a Christian, but I took it to be a true statement, because I accepted the authority of the bible.
(that mindset allowed me to think there was something wrong with *me* because I couldn't see what St. Paul insisted was obvious.)

Now I'd say false. I wouldn't go as far as saying I can clearly prove from nature that God doesn't exist, but I don't have to.
Since God's hand is not universally "clearly perceived in the things that have been made", it is a false assertion. And in noting that, much else follows.

Answer 5

If God reveals himself through nature, than I don't want to know Him.

Cannabalism is natural, competition and survival are natural, humans commit some unbelievably atrocious acts (and I'm assuming most of them are still natural), plants eat animals, bacteria and starvation ravage populations, organisms die, black holes...

I actually didn't mean to go on that long, but I'd like to think that humans can achieve something better than nature (hence laws, society, ethics, etc.) At any rate, if these are "clearly" visions of God, and you take the whole of nature, I don't want a sadistic, murderous, cannibalistic, materialistic, sex-crazed father figure as my God, even if he can paint a nice picture every once in a while.

Answer 6

That's just a quick summary of the philosophical position known as the "Argument From Design", or more recently "Intelligent Design". The key word there is PHILOSOPHICAL. The argument begs the question, though. By assuming that Nature is inherently beautiful and harmonious, it assumes the need for a designer. The fact is, Nature isn't universally beautiful or harmonious - it's in a constant state of chaos and flux. (OK, that's the serious part of my answer. This next bit is just a whimsical observation on my part.)
There are about 1.2 million known species of animal life on Earth. Of those, about 2/3 are insects, and about 2/3 of the insects are one kind of beetle or another. So, if there is a designer, he seems inordinately fond of beetles.

Answer 7

For me, I clearly see God in the wonders of nature. As a Christan woman I marvel at the beauty of the earth. I see Him in the clear blue skies of September, the quietly falling snow flakes, the replenishing rains that fill the lakes and rivers.

I feel Henry D. Thoreau writings at Walden pond answer this question eloquently:

"My profession is always to be on the alert to find God in Nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas, of nature." In a river, he found the flow of eternity; climbing a mountain he felt his spirit move closer to God. "I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows." It was as though he could see through Nature to a glimpse of the divine. What might sound to us like a contradiction made perfect sense to him: "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." Exalting his own small world of Walden Pond and Walden Woods and the Concord countryside, Henry Thoreau exalted nature for all of us everywhere.

Answer 8

False. Nature is not god. Beauty is not god. If God were not real (and I believe that) all that is wonderful would still exist. Everything can be explained to those who choose to listen.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

False

I personally believe that God dose reveal himself though nature, but I also understand that such a statement is entirely subjective.

As such another person might have a completely different view.