Referring to Hume’s
example of iron floating in the air, Adams commented that even a man can cause
iron or lead objects to fly through the air or to be suspended in water by his
own human power exerted against nature. (Gary R. Habermas, On the
Resurrection, 4 vols. [Brentwood, Tenn.: B&H Academic, 2024], 2:74)
Luke Adam’s iron
example, it may be added today along these same lines of thought that humans
can, by their own power, even send spacecraft through and far beyond earth’s
gravity and out into the far reaches of our solar system. While the spacecraft
did not, strictly speaking, “break” a law of nature at all, they overcame or
superseded what in Hume’s day would never have been thought possible.
Furthermore, such spacecraft were powered by a stronger force than nature’s
laws, though these were not supernatural forces at all. What’s more, the laws
were still firmly in place both before as well as after the spacecraft passed
through, with absolutely no ill effects. If there were a God with certain
attributes who chose to act in nature by a still stronger power, why should
this be deemed an impossibility, with the laws of nature returning to their
normal course immediately afterward? How could Hume disallow this argument? (Ibid.,
74 n. 47)
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