Hello Isherwood
(oops… now it’s Jack?!?!? you changed that half way through my edit... This place is so confusing): I am glad to hear from you. I know I only have 4 posts and you have almost 12,000 but to tell the truth reading your posts over the last 2 months was one of the prime motivations for me to join. You tick me off and yet stimulate my thought process at the same time.
To the point now:
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Quote by: Isherwood  The Big Bang was also the birth of energy and matter. If gods exist outside time and aren't energy or matter, then they/it exist in a condition that cannot interact with this universe. That doesn't agree with any dogma I'm aware of. |
I would assume that if one actually does believe that there is a creator then one must
also believe that the creator also created the laws of our universe… which would include the laws that govern matter and energy. If that is the case than why would said creator be constrained by the laws he created? (did I use "create" enough there?)
When I write a program is my physical life constrained by the laws of the .Net framework I utilize in the software I generate? (I know you’re a Mac guy so go with me)
I say no!
In my physical existence I am constrained by the laws of my physical reality (i.e I have to crap but my code does not) whereas the programs I write are bounded by: the code I create, the C syntax I use, and the .Net framework windows provides me (in my analogy I am God so I also created C, .Net, the Windows OS, and the x86 architecture of the computer I am using.. if you follow my point)
Does that make me, as the programmer, any less real? Does that mean that since I am in the physical world and the program I write is in the .Net world that we cannot interact in a way that I choose? Because I am carbon based and the program I write is binary based does that invalidate either or both of us.
To make a final point of it: I think you are wrong. If there is a creator... with ultimate knowledge, power and skills.. then he can interact as he chooses because he writes the rules.