Rationality & Christianity: Mutually Exclusive?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I'm intrigued as to how you can be a rational christian. I accept that you can be a Christian and be rational in your everyday life. But how about with regard to a magic man who had special powers and was created by God impregnating a woman who gave birth a month later?

At the end of the day everybody's metaphysics and cosmology are "irrational" because we all start from a point where where there is no evidence.

Atheists believe the universe spontaneously came into existence, Christians believe the universe was created by God.

Atheists believe the universe operates according to logical and consistent laws (except for Quantum Theory), Christians believe that the universe operates according to logical and consistent laws (except for Quantum Theory and Divine Intervention).

Once one accepts the existence of an omniscient being then things like virgin conception and walking on water are trivial and the existence/non-existence of God is a neutrally weighted question because there's no evidence one way or the other.

As regards Jesus specifically, most Christians accept that he violated the laws of Physics (although he was born after nine months, not one) and therefore they don't try to explain his miracles using Cod science, they simply say that Jesus "cheated" by being outside the rules that govern the universe. If you think that's a lot to accept, given that he was INSIDE the universe whilst also being OUTSIDE it and was able to pick and choose then you really should look at some of the modern theorems in Physics because they sound just as odd.

This viewpoint is fundamentally different to people who say the universe is 6,000 years old despite all the evidence to the contrary.