Re: God --> Retroactive Teleogical Causation

From: Mitch Alsup (MitchAlsup_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:03:09 +0000 (UTC)

analog57@yahoo.com (Russell E. Rierson) wrote in message news:<c410ffa5.0410102207.1a0a4fc8@posting.google.com>...
> "George Hammond" <nowhere@nomailspam.com> wrote in message news:<wL-dnS-gqJkxJ8vcRVn-qw@comcast.com>...
>> (1) the universe is spatially closed (has finite spatial size and has
> the topology of a three-sphere),
>
> (2) there are no event horizons, implying the future c-boundary is a
> point --- the Omega Point,
>
> (3) Life must eventually engulf the entire universe and control it,
>
> (4) the amount of information processed between now and the final
> state is infinite,
>
> (5) the amount of information stored in the universe diverges to
> infinity as the final state is approached.

There are between 10**80 atoms and 10**88 particles in the observable
universe. Given that each atom has a finite number of quantum states.
There is no way an infinite amount of information can be recorded in
the universe. Q.E.D

The universe will exist for around 10**80 years, the present in 10**13
years. Protons decay around 10**39 to 10**43 years. So, even time is
finite, no rate of information generation in a finite universe that
lasts for a finite amount of time can produce an infinite amount of
information. Q.E.D

So, by simple inspection 2 of your 5 postulates are false. I suspect
that postulate 3 is easily disproven (speed of light, finite time).

So, at present, your batting record is such that a rational person
would have to bet against the rest of you postulation.

Mitch

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