Seems like this topic has been sliced and diced sufficiently that I should offer my 2 and 1/2 cents now. Lets start with what I call collaborative miracles. God created such an incredible world with so many intricate and amazing processes. Full of beauty and things that taste good. Oh ya, and things that dazzle the eye and the mind of man. An example of a collaborative miracle is a loaf of bread. God gave us wheat. Man has developed a way to grow, harvest and process wheat in such a way that, if corrupt governments would somehow evaporate overnight we could feed the whole world and end hunger. Man has developed systems of agriculture that allow this. Of course, "who has put wisdom in the innermost being or given understanding to the mind". In Job 38 we are reminded that God has given us this ability to imagine and engineer things, so even our part of the collaboration is dependent on Him.
Nonetheless, here we are. Collaborative miracles, while not residing entirely outside the natural world as we normally think when speaking of miracles, are still amazing things to behold. When I eat an egg mcmuffin with a hash-brown and a glass of orange juice, I am enjoying a product that has involved 100's of people, 1000's of inventions and an economic system which enables the actuation of the miracle. I am eating a miracle. Exceptionalism is found in all people but only takes flight when coupled with individual freedom and free markets. Indeed, our exceptionalism is not unique, it is simply given a vehicle for expression. We don't need to modernize our constitution, we need to convince our leaders to honor it and to promote it's principles around the world. Of course my prayers are still offered in hopes of God's Spirit leading us back to His side first and foremost. This is the logical starting place for the aforementioned release of exceptionalism to be reconvened.
