As far as I know, the Bible never flat-out says that god is omni-potent/scient/present. It's possible to reach that interpretation via careful selection of texts and just as conveniently possible to point out that the words themselves aren't there. It refers to god as "the almighty" and I'm sure that there are any number of ways to interpret that (including a common apologist favorite, "this is what the word is in its original language, and how the people of the time understood it"). It may refer to god as "all knowing" but I don't recall if it uses that phrase exactly. But it makes it pretty clear that god can read the minds of humans, both their thoughts and their intentions.
I'm not really sure how to figure out "omnipresent." If it is impossible to hide from god, if he can see everything we do and hear everything we say and read every thought in our heads... isn't that omnipresence? It can't be a reference to a physical presence, since there is no shortage of Christians telling us that we cannot detect god because he is a metaphysical spirit being who lives in his metaphysical spirit home, possibly on a whole different dimensional plane (gotta keep those options open!). Therefore god must be omnipresent, yes? Or am I teetering on the edge of the rabbit hole by asking for a rational explanation of the concept?
I'm not really sure how to figure out "omnipresent." If it is impossible to hide from god, if he can see everything we do and hear everything we say and read every thought in our heads... isn't that omnipresence? It can't be a reference to a physical presence, since there is no shortage of Christians telling us that we cannot detect god because he is a metaphysical spirit being who lives in his metaphysical spirit home, possibly on a whole different dimensional plane (gotta keep those options open!). Therefore god must be omnipresent, yes? Or am I teetering on the edge of the rabbit hole by asking for a rational explanation of the concept?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
