Deus ex machina

[Dave Matson] Gathering the animals calls for another round of miracles…Creationist Henry Morris (for years the head of the Institute for Creation Research) imagines that those animals needed for the ark would magically develop an instinct and migrate to the ark…It's all so very simple if you are a creationist! Just invoke a few miracles and forget about the sticky details…Caring for the animals requires yet another basket of miracles.

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/common_sense/bible_science.html

Invoking miracles to explain how we get from "this to that," adds nothing to human knowledge. Science is an attempt to build on the knowledge we have, to hypothesize and discover connections between things we know. Miracles have no connection except in the supernatural mind of God. They have no explanatory value, they cannot be compared one to another, since each miracle is unique and uniquely inexplicable.

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/latest_2003/search_for_truth.html

I suppose that if a Designer had wanted people to communicate with greater ease then S/he/it might have installed a port in the side of everyone's cranium through which we could download and upload data with others, i.e., whole lifetimes of learning and experience being shared quickly and easily. Or in lieu of such a physical port perhaps such a Designer might at least allow two people to share their knowledge and experiences in some "psychic" fashion so as to be able to focus sharply and intently on their greatest singular points of agreement.

http://edward-t-babinski.blogspot.com/2006/11/richard-carriers-five-questions.html

Notice Babinski’s contradictory treatment of miracles.

On the one hand, he says that miracles have no explanatory value.

He also posted an article by Dave Matson in which Matson attacks the flood account on the grounds that it would take too many miracles to make it feasible.

On the other hand, Babinski also attacks our belief in God on the grounds that if God wanted people to agree with each other, he could have facilitated the process by installing a cranial port to upload or download data from other minds. Or absent that, God could simply create a race of telepathic human beings. Indeed, that he should have done so—if he were real.

Babinski evidently believes that such a miracle (or two) would have explanatory value after all.

So the God of the Bible is incredible because he performs too many miracles.

No, scratch that.

The God of the Bible is incredible because he performs too few miracles.