RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 17, 2018 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2018 at 2:21 pm by CDF47.)
(May 17, 2018 at 2:07 pm)Khemikal Wrote: -and yet it doesn;t know the first thing about it's own creations mind or the manner in which everything was created.
God-as-idiot savant. Good at counting hairs, bad at everything else.
He can choose to work with His creation as He wills. He prefers to be a mysterious God.
(May 17, 2018 at 2:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Um........didn;t you -just- tell us otherwise? You need to work harder to keep your shit straight, at a bare minimum. I;m not demanding that it make sense, only suggesting that you pick a silly story and stick with it.
No, I said before that evil existed before the fall because obviously the devil was here to tempt Eve in the Garden of Eden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil existed.
(May 17, 2018 at 2:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Phew, glad he let somebody else do all that work. Where would we be without him.
Sometimes it is miraculous healing and sometimes it is through medicine and doctors. That's all.
(May 17, 2018 at 2:13 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(May 17, 2018 at 2:09 pm)CDF47 Wrote: He has allowed there to be medical devices now that can significantly help amputees. Sometimes He allows doctors and medicine to help or heal people.
Then why did I have to spend years in medical school, then as an intern, and continue my learning and working hard if it wanted me to cure people? Why not just give me the skills and knowledge?
I had to work hard for my degree too. God worked to construct the universe and hold it together. We have to work in this life time.
(May 17, 2018 at 2:14 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 17, 2018 at 2:06 pm)CDF47 Wrote: Just an analogy. It is helpful, that is how He can control every molecule in the universe as He chooses. A supercomputer could count the number of hairs on the head of a created character in the universe that was built in it. Similar for God who can count the number of hairs on our head.
A rather prescient analogy, I might add. Since God is omniscient, he always knows what is the best thing to do at any instant, by definition. Thus God doesn't need to be intelligent, and indeed, being intelligent would be a hindrance to his acting efficiently. Since acting less efficiently than possible is an imperfection, God cannot be intelligent, as that would mean he is not perfect. So the necessary conclusion of Christian theology is that God is an automaton, mindlessly carrying out the actions which his omniscience dictates that he perform.
So, yes, your God is very much like a super computer.
Not in that sense He isn't. He is not automated. He is the ultimate reality, the primordial One, and true and living God.