"For instance, gravity must have been in operation, but when the waters of Day 2 drained off the rising continents on Day 3, they were able to move faster and farther than waters can be moved today. Modern natural laws, operating at rates we recognize today were evidently not fully instituted until Creation was completed on Day 6, and God rested from His creative acts, but even these laws were altered at the time of the Curse on all of Creation."
Most of us think of Occam's razor prefers the explanation that does not requires miracles, but not so with RATE. They think that Occam's razor prefers the explanation with the fewest number of miracles that are linked to Creation, The Fall, or The Flood.
"A general principle commonly used in science was discussed and agreed upon for application to our research, that Occam's razor. This is the approach to truth that says the simplest, most elegant explanation for an observed phenomenon which appeals to the fewest miracles is considered to be the most-likely solution. This principle is based on the concept that God designs systems to operate in accordance with efficiency, order, and beauty. Use of this principle by the RATE group does not imply that we eliminate the occurrence of miracles, but rather, we minimize the number of miracles and attempt to relate them to supernatural events specifically mentioned in the Scriptures."Here are a couple more.
"The Rate group suspects that large amounts of radioactive decay occurred during the first three days of Creation as part of the supernatural Creation process. The jury is still out and, until we complete out research phase, this concept is only hypothetical. The presence of supernatural "process" during Creation is essential to our approach, however."
"Creation, the Judgment, and the Flood were all supernatural events and it would seem appropriate to at least consider that an original distribution of elements could have been mixed and radioactive processes speeded up during one or any of them."Also, let's not forget Lightner's paper on Avian Kinds. There are 1500 species that came from the Passeroidea kind. Lightner admits that it is not probable that two or even fourteen birds produced that much variety in a few thousand years through known natural explanations.
"However, perhaps the most astounding group identified based on interspecific hybrid data is Passeroidea. Encompassing Old and New World sparrows, various finches and related birds, this represents an amazing amount of variety in the nearly 1500 species. It is clear that this diversity didn’t arise since the Flood by the standard naturalistic explanations of neo-Darwinism, that is, chance mutations and natural selection (Lightner 2013)!"People asking you to believe their miracle claims are a dime a dozen. For example, the demon house was just sold. According to two eyewitnesses, the demon possessed boy allegedly walk backwards up a wall and did a flip off the ceiling. These demons were later exorcised by a priest. Were you there? Do I know that these events did not happen? No, I don't. However even eyewitness testimony is not enough to convince me that they did.
Likewise, some of these "biblical creationists" ask us to believe their interpretation of what they think that scripture says about the natural world, but they have to add miracles to make it work. When "biblical creationism" and the Theory of Evolution are considered, Occam's razor would seem to suggest that the explanation with the fewest miracles is the best. Since the Theory of Evolution does not appeal to supernatural forces, it appears to win the razor test.
