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In the "Is There a Creator" episode of Through
the Wormhole, there seems to be a consensus that, yes there is, but of what form and
genesis? One that intrigues me, from a philosophical pov, is that
God is a computer geek genius. As an erstwhile Sim-City enthusiast, from the days
when it ran in DOS, I readily
accepted creator Will Wright as an exemplar. But, the
computer analogy took me to a troubling place; an epiphanal
moment where something I accepted, albeit somewhat nebulously, or
absentmindedly, became starkly real. God the computer geek
can push a button and print the spreadsheet of my life, in the
most minute detail, during my last heartbeat. Depending on
the result, and with unyielding and impersonal adherence to the
program, a disposition will be made. Case closed. Holy shit.
Aside: I always
felt that public officials should be made to play Sim City until they
successfully created a working city the size of the area they
represented. In that manner, our lawmakers would at least have
some exposure to the role taxation, immigration, crime and
infrastructure play, and none of them could possibly remain a
Democrat (as we know them today). Those who did would be exposed
as having an agenda not in the public interest, and be sent to the
electric chair.
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Thank God for his grace. Otherwise we're all doomed.
ReplyDeleteTim
Years ago when computers where in their infancy Andrew Greely wrote a book called God Game about being able to control a civilzation by using ones computer. A very good read even if the computer info is long outdated.
ReplyDeleteHope HE has a really good UPS and a backup copy of all of HIS "documents".
ReplyDeleteI was intrigued by the experiment of brain stimulation on the young nursing student. All-in-all I can't get away from some kind of intellegent design scenario. I can't accept that all of this is the product of random accidents.
Guess I'm not smart enough to an atheist.
Brigadier Major Mike
Guess I'm not smart enough to an atheist.
ReplyDeleteme neither.
RE: but of what form and genesis?
ReplyDeleteThat's why the 10 Commandments starts with the statements that I Am God and you better not try to fit Me into any form or idol. How can you put boundaries on Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omnipotence? God Is: appreciate it, dwell in it.
Laurence
I don't mind atheists but most of those I've known who call themselves "atheists" would more accurately be called theophobes.
ReplyDeleteAside: I always felt that public officials should be made to play Sim City until they successfully created a working city the size of the area they represented. In that manner, our lawmakers would at least have some exposure to the role taxation, immigration, crime and infrastructure play, and none of them could possibly remain a Democrat (as we know them today). Those who did would be exposed as having an agenda not in the public interest, and be sent to the electric chair.
ReplyDeleteThose that play it and stay demo craps used the cheat codes.
SherryM
Brigadier Major, I agree - from a probability viewpoint, if the chance of each useful mutation is, say 1 in 10 million ( a very high number actually), the probability of two useful mutations is 1 in 10 to the 14th power). The probability of 3 useful mutations would be 1 in 10 to the 21st power - that's 1 followed by 21 zeroes.) The chances that all the useful mutations happened, and in individual organisms who happened to survive, are infinitesimal.
ReplyDeleteOh yea well how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. What Laurence said. We are all on the same team no matter how HE managed it. Just happy and thankful he lets me a part of it all.
ReplyDeleteIf our universe is really a computer simulation, who do I talk to about getting some cheat codes?
ReplyDeleteLarry in Rochester
Im an agnostic I think, altho sometimes I believe there is a god in the form of a giant hunk of Gouda cheese.....
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