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Originally Posted by BBKing
It wouldn't be, say, because money for flood prevention works has been withheld or spent in the south (where I am, about 400 yards from the river, in fact)? It's all very well pontificating, but it doesn't help stop people's houses being flooded. Private Eye pointed out last week that it was well known that York was short of several hundred million pounds for flood barriers.
After all, rain isn't exactly unknown in the UK, the relative heights of bits of land and their proximity to rivers isn't a mystery and neither is the increased danger of flooding if you concrete over flood plains and low-lying land. Let's get some perspective on here and use our God/evolution*-given intelligence and cunning to put some proper engineering in. We're supposed to be *good* at that in the UK. Taking advice from bishops on this is as pointless as making Jade Goody professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
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If - hypothetically - God wished to show his displeasure with the UK by bringing extreme weather and flooding to our shores, then any or all of the factors you have cited could have been subject to the Divine intervention necessary to bring those decisions and conditions about.
The precise means by which human will and divine purpose coexist in the universe has been argued over for centuries but theologians generally agree that it does, and I doubt any of them would be persuaded to abandon their faith as a result of a humanistic view of events such as the one you offer.