Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:28:59 +0000

I read in sci.electronics.design that Noah Roberts
<nroberts@stmartin.edu> wrote (in <1106686261.663774.317870@f14g2000cwb.
googlegroups.com>) about 'Peterson's Death Sentence', on Tue, 25 Jan
2005:

>You assume that the laws of this universe apply to God, when God is very
>likely not bound by these rules. Like I said before, since God made the
>Universe he probably is not contained by it as we are. What is outside
>of the universe is not necessarily bound by the laws of it.

This is not in any way new, and is far too tentative. It should be self-
evident that an omniscient, omnipresent god CANNOT be bound by the laws
of motion and time. Omnipotence is a lot more complicated, but similar
conclusions can be made. None of the natural laws can apply to such an
entity.

The necessary consequence of that is that we cannot learn anything about
this entity through science (which NEVER claims that we can) or logical
reasoning. From time immemorial, the people who comprehended this
situation, and saw the advantages of a career as priest, shaman or
prophet, with the intelligence to succeed at it, volunteered to
interpret the god, the god's teaching and the god's wishes to the
temporal leaders and the common people.

Man created gods. It's a good trick if you can get away with it, and
people still try today. Some succeed, maybe for a short time. 

-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. 
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
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