Not quite. It follows under the category of "magic" if you try to promote it as truth that is immune to scientific understanding.Poet1960 wrote: Oh, and btw, I guess anything you can't understand automatically falls into the category of, "magic." Which of course I have never said, but for some reason people like you use it a lot.
I'm all for the idea that there are things that we do not yet understand, I'd even go tentatively as far as allowing for things we can't understand (given biological constraints, we can't think beyond how we've evolved to think, and that may have fundamental shortcomings).
What I do not accept is the idea of something being both real and beyond explanation. If you're proposing God as something that is somehow excluded from scientific understanding, interacting with the universe via supernatural means completely exempt from explanation, then I don't need to call it magic because you'd have done it yourself. That's literally the definition.
But, if you want to propose a God that fits within the realm of explanation yet is simply beyond our current understanding, have at it. I have no objections to that, but it would then be an entirely meaningless concept, just sitting in a bin of dead-end theories unless something significant happened to change that.
You can not be serious with that. Of course, for the sake of argument if we were going to simply accept that in some way shape or form foresight was available, there are still rational options. If not time travel, then determinism. A bit on the extreme and unlikely side, but sure, can't rule it out (less so time travel unless we're seriously missing some details).Poet1960 wrote: How many other religions have predicted events with 100% accuracy?
Edit: I see you've added quotes. Let's be honest here, we both know any google search will turn out plenty of sites supporting what you're saying, and plenty of stuff pointing out how those are crap. We could get into them if you'd like, but I'd rather not spend my evening googling rebuttals that we both already know are there (just google 'failed christian prophecies', there's no shortage).