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Thread #73222   Message #1270183
Posted By: Little Hawk
12-Sep-04 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is there a god or not?
Subject: RE: BS: Is there a god or not?
Yeah, Dianavan, I see what you mean. But what does "all-powerful" actually mean in that context?

Lets say that I designed a computer game of a whole world and set it up to be interactive. That is to say, the many little simulated people in the game would interact with each other and the rest of the environment in an intelligent fashion, and would have absolutely free will within the limits of that environment (so I wouldn't actually know for sure what any one of them might do in the next moment).

That's what a really good computer game is actually like! You don't know for sure what's going to happen, even though you may have designed and created the whole game.

That makes it interesting.

Am I, the creator of that computer game all-powerful in regards to that game or am I not? Think about that and see what you come up with.