Isn’t “There must be a rational explanation.” really just the secular equivalent of “God works in mysterious ways”?

[Chazmatazz269]

These are things people commonly say when they cannot explain something that they have observed or experienced.
When you’re relying entirely upon anecdotal evidence, if you insist on contriving a conclusion, you end up relying on some degree of faith. Atheists insist that there is no such thing as any form of higher order, let alone power. So when there’s something indisputably real occurring that they can’t explain, the words “There must be a rational explanation” usually escape their lips.
But isn’t that the exact same thing as “God works in mysterious ways”? You don’t have an explanation. Even if you did, you have absolutely no evidence to support it. Which, in your own opinion in as much as it applies to religious explanations, means that whatever comes out of your mouth in an attempt to explain is pure, unadulterated hooey.
So, in the end, aren’t “There must be a rational explanation.” and “God works in mysterious ways.” really just the exact same statement?

I’d really like to see some solid, good faith debates on this one, folks. Keep it respectful.

[Cidknee]

lol-
The reason why this exists is just some of the proof God is who He says. He is woven or, maybe better, Creation is woven within God. You don't have to look to far to be given a personal view of proof that they demand. You just need to quit denying His existence.

[Chazmatazz269]

They are me, sometimes. I think what you’re talking about tends to be more in line with atheists’ tendency to deny evidence rather than test evidence because their preconceived notions disallow a paranormal or supernatural explanation.

[Cidknee]

Exactly what that is and what it is they do.

[slatyb]

No, it's not because often there is an underlying explanation. Some people hear ghosts. I hear a house settling after a hot day. The secular equivalent of "God works in mysterious ways" is "Shit happens". We can understand the behavior of complex objects like Earth's athmosphere, but we can only predict local weather for a few days, and then only the gross features like temperature and rainfall. We can't predict natural disasters like tornados very far in advance. We can't do much to protect homes from flooding. We can't do much to protect people contracting cancer. Shit happens.

[Chazmatazz269]

100% non sequitur, as we have come to expect from you. There have been THOUSANDS of documented cases of people with terminal illnesses miraculously cured despite repeated and long term failures by medical science at its best. “There must be some rational explanation!”, because you don’t want to admit that you have NO idea, but a person’s miraculous survival certainly isn’t just “shit happens”.
There have been hundreds of documented “paranormal” anomalies repeatedly observed and still no “rational explanations” despite years or even decades of research. Look up The Paulding Light, any of hundreds of UFO or UAP records, the emergence of species previously categorized as extinct, even the very theory of abiogenesis. All of which remain wholly unexplained despite years or even decades of research, yet “there must be some rational explanation”, not “shit happens”.
Don’t you ever get tired of being completely wrong? 🤣🤣🤣

[Cidknee]

The entire time reading this question from Chazz the thought "shit happens" was going through my head. I didn't use it though.

My dad kept his house from flooding. He built it in 68 and it still has never flooded even with Dellwood creek running through his yard. The yard has flooded many, many times. Mr. Hall, across the street, flooded dozens of times. My dad said it drove him to the graveyard. My dad had 300 dump trucks brought in raising the yard near six feet above the street level. The house is 6 feet.
6 years after his passing and the afteraffects of a land struck hurricane Ike the house became an island. The water touched the slab on the southwest corner and rose to within 3 inches of entering the house. That was the closest it ever reached.

[Brain_Borrower]

Me no smart to answer. Me think creationism is debunked by the existence of brown people, we definitely evolved from monkeys.

[Brain_Borrower]

There will forever be people putting their eyes on the exact same data and one saying "this is how it works" while another saying "this is what god makes". No matter what they look at.

[Chazmatazz269]

Artful non-answer. Way to not make a stand! 😂😂😂
At least you went for a bit of humor.
Just in case anyone reads this that doesn’t know any better, we did NOT evolve from monkeys. Modern man and modern ape evolved from a common ancestor that an ignorant person might confuse for a modern monkey. That animal remains 100% theoretical because no remains proving its existence have ever been discovered, and some people refer to it as the infamous “missing link”.
Unless there has been a world shattering discovery in the last ten years that somehow stayed out of the mainstream news.