The ‘God’ Program

Or simply explaining Life, the Universe, and Everything with “God executed it” is just substituting one thriller via attractive to an excellent larger thriller. Just pronouncing “God carried out it” has no actual explanatory energy. On the other, explaining Life, the Universe and Everything as a laptop software pro ‘God’ Program because it was, can account for all anomalies. With software, all things are possible – even explaining God.

According to at least one theist of my online acquaintance, if God knows each feasible final result and what He will do in every case, there are no surprises… Because a being who is aware of the complete flowchart would not want to assume or ponder.

That raised an interesting scenario for me.

“If God is aware of each feasible final result and what He will do in each case… ”

“what He will do” calls for His real thought, contemplation, and decision-making. Otherwise, one is simply suggesting that God is a pre-programmed robotic who will robotically reply and do A if B and C if not, and so on. Every possibility is in God’sbrain’ now, not because God deduced all opportunities through concept and contemplation and purpose and deduction, but because of this pre-programmed chip that is pre-programmed with all possible scenarios and all reactions to each and each possibility, consequently eliminating any requirement for thinking and deliberation and contemplation and decision-making. In different phrases, God is akin to that pc that subsequently defeated the human chess champion because the pc knew – inside the same way my theist buddy says God knows – each viable move the human should make and what to do to counter those actions. The laptop had the chess flowchart mapped out. God is a laptop! That’s exactly what this theist was pronouncing or instead suggesting. The proof…

“… Because a being who knows the entire flowchart would not want to suppose or ponder” seems to verify my premise. The phrases of a theist verify my premise!

If God knows each feasible situation – the definition of the grasp flowchart that carries all viable flowcharts – then there may be no unfastened will concerned, just determinism. A laptop software application is deterministic; no loose will may be concerned.

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Assuming there is a God of the route, God may additionally or won’t know the absolute destiny. Still, one may argue that God should see the future because He set the genuinely deterministic laws, ideas, and relationships inherent in and of the physical sciences. Causality is absolute. If X these days, then Y the next day. However, there is one nasty can of worms, an unfastened cannon, in that deterministic scenario – free will.

It has been claimed that God knows the future apart from what those nasty, free-willed human beings (and many animals) can and will do. However, God recognizes every feasible state of affairs these loose-willed people (and animals) can or will do. God knows all the unfastened-willed human (and animal) flowcharts and, as a result, can cater before the truth to address something state of affairs eventuates. That struck me as equal toto the laptop software defeating the human chess champion. That computer software application knew the flowchart of each viable pass the human chess champion should make and how to counteract every possible human circulate. So, God is comparable to a computer or higher, but it is a PC software program.

At first, I thought that equating God with a laptop was first-rate, but I became wrong about equating God with a computer. God isn’t the laptop. God is simply the real laptop software program that runs the virtual fact ‘sport’ that we call Life, the Universe, and Everything. Let’s call this the ‘God’ Program, the pc software that could address all loose-will opportunities or eventualities. In a laptop/video game, the pc software program ‘is aware of the complete feasible sports flowchart and has to cater to all viable scenarios generated by the loose-willed human participant(s). But notice that there is nothing about the program. Consequently, if God is similar to a pc software application, then there’s nothing mystical about God.

So the query is not how is God the writer but rather how changed into God the created. Here’s a scenario. It’s the year 2525, and fairly technologically superior beings (possibly human) have developed the most advanced and sophisticated computer software program yet performed, which they name ‘God’ (or perhaps the “God’ Program), and this ‘God’ Program creates and controls a digital fact landscape called Life, the Universe, and Everything. Along with you and I, we are ‘current’ as a part of what we understand as our sincerely real 2017 reality. Still, we exist in that ‘God’ generated virtual 2017 truth panorama – 2017 being a part of the ‘God’-generated simulation. That digital truth landscape is called Life, the Universe, and Everything Works. Again, there’s not anything supernatural about it.

But a pc software program application – the ‘God’ Program – calls for a creator. Therefore, God is created in our image; so to speak, humans are the author.

So the question is, a variation on a previous subject, who or what wrote the laptop software program, the ‘God’ Program? But something who or what programmed the ‘God’ Program, that programmer(s) once more does not should be supernatural even supposing the programmer(s) are so particularly technologically superior that they could seem magical or mystical – Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law.

Dropping down one stage, we are no longer supernatural. Yet, we program our video/laptop video games via our innovative capabilities, and possibly those video/computer sports characters we’ve created may view us as supernatural. Of the route, they would be wrong. One may see a parallel here with a number of our contemporary religions.

It is regularly claimed that God ‘exists’ in an undying and changeless country that is absolute rubbish IMHO because that very act of original requires a temporal life, and a temporal existence requires an alternate.

But, a laptop software program application – the ‘God’ Program – isn’t, of course, undying, and it isn’t always changeless, and it does exist in an undying or changeless state of Life. Yet it doesn’t assume, decide, ponder, deliberate, or whatever other synonyms you care to apply.

Backing up once more one degree, here’s a sensible application of the ‘God’ Program. Now, if you are inclined to accept, based totally on one e-book’s texts, masses of human beings claimed they saw a supernatural Jesus (earlier than, throughout, and after). However, there is no unbiased verification of any of this, which you yourselfshould make yourself and yourself regarding the one’s supernatural claims. Yet, you are (probably) not willing to accept the (normally manner greater latest) testimony of tens of millions of humans over heaps of years who have witnessed different (it cannot be; therefore, it isn’t always vs. I know what I saw) anomalies – ghosts, dragons, fairies, aliens, Bigfoot, etc. – then it is a double widespread. One isn’t any more credible than the other. But both can be assimilated into the ‘God’ Program (or in extra commonplace parlance, the Simulation Hypothesis) without hassle.

Here’s every other version of that situation or topic. If we are virtual beings ‘current’ in a laptop software program software – the ‘God’ Program – that has generated our simulated panorama referred to as Life, the Universe, and Everything, then there may be no purpose why all mythological beings, from dragons to Horus; from leprechauns to Odin; from fairies to Apollo, couldn’t have also ‘existed’ albeit honestly. What software program can carry into existence, the software can terminate. That applies equally to all of the alleged occasions and characters in the Bible, including supernatural beings – angels, demons, and the Trinity itself. Further, it effortlessly accounts for any supernatural events or miracles related in Biblical texts, just like the Sun and the Moon status nonetheless inside the sky, the creation of a female from a male rib, Jonah inside the ‘whale’ dwelling to tell the tale; or the diverse accounts of what quantities to pure alchemy. With computer software programs, all matters are riable.