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Date Posted: 08:55:24 12/15/04 Wed
Author: Mike K.
Subject: Used as a justification
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: "Famous Atheist Now Believes in God"" on 01:59:18 12/10/04 Fri

Many famous scientists came to that conclusion, even Max Planck or Albert Einstein.

Even UBF did (and probably still does) pull these registers to "convince" prospect "sheep" of the reality of God, and in a fashion uses these people to justify their own theology.
Ah, but this is the Offtopic.
Nonetheless, it wa Einstein's thesis that "examining all the intricate details on how the universe is arranged, one cannot help but arrive at the conclusion that a sentinent being must have constructed it", which is, for some people the same as stating "there is a God" - far from "God is real" in the fashion a Christian understands it.

Given such a statement, a computer programmer who has created a program like "Sims" or the infamous "Tamagotchi" is also a God, and likewise the kid who owns this Tamagotchi is also a God - on a smaller scale.

An intelligent creator who controls a self-evolving world is pretty much not so different from the administrator (programmer) of a so-called "MUD" or "MMORPG". Because these people, in the "worlds" they created, even have aome omnipotency and omnipresence, plus they are an intelligent creator of a universe that is -in itself- logical. Are they Gods? Not by our understanding.

So, the "God" that such scientists discover is merely a sentinence on a level higher than ours, pretty much in the fashion in which Christopher Columbus was a "God" to the Native Americans with his "thunderstaves" and shining armor...

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Re: Used as a justification -- Chris, 09:37:30 12/15/04 Wed