Humdizzy said:
Lol Since the topic is still going. Who created God? Lol My one theory is that we are Sims and God is a Sims addict. So maybe God is living in a world similar to ours and someone created him and then those people are Sim players also. So its like a giant chain of Sim addicts. lol A joke theory.
This may sound silly, but it is actually one of the more plausible explanations. There was a nice paper published on this a year or so back. Basically the premise is that at some point a technological society will develop a computer that can emulate an entire universe. It has also been proven than an emulator can run within another copy of itself, so it would stand to reason that in one of these simulated another technological society would develop that would also develop the ability to simulate a universe. And so on, and so on. The paper concluded that the probability of us being some sort of “software” running in a simulated universe was quite high.
A lot of religious people don’t like this because it “degrades” God to a hyper evolved geek. Personally I don’t have a problem with it. In fact I quite like it. It doesn’t contradict any science, or really any religion for that matter. You can have an all knowing God, who can simulate our entire universe in a fraction of a “God Second” to see what happens. So of course he knows what’s going to happen. He’s run the simulation countless times. You can have an omnipotent God. He can run the simulation with any parameters he wants. If he needs to violate a law of physics he simply pauses, removes the law, does his work, pauses, reinstates the law, and resumes. No laws are ever violated and he can do anything he wants.
And this ties in well with Lees stuff about Quantum Physics. At this level the Universe is composed of numbers and formulas, not solids, gasses, and liquids. Things do not exist in a specific place, but rather have a formula that defines the probability of them being in a place at any given time. If I were writing a universe emulator I would definitely have some sort of abstraction layer that would keep the simulation running in some sort of sandbox controlled by outside functions which could not be accessed or perhaps even discerned. And then of course you have Planks constant, the smallest unit of energy. It’s not the smallest we can measure. I there were anything smaller we could measure it, there’s just nothing smaller. And why is it 6.626176 x 10-34? Because that’s the FPU resolution on the CPU in Gods Game Boy.
Of course this is the only way I, as a humble barely sentient programmer, can possibly relate to a being so phenomenally advanced. No doubt he doesn’t actually have a Game Boy, he has/is something that the greatest human minds of a million years in the future may just be able to dream (if you could still call them human by then). Of course, If I were an ancient Egyptian farmer I’d probably see God as a bunch of animals that ran the sun, seasons, and weather. The only difference is that I realize that I have no chance of ever coming close to understanding what God is, why He/She/It does what He/She/It does, no matter how many books I read, or how hard I pray, meditate, or sacrifice virgins to volcanoes.
I would also like to point out a few points about this seventh day thing. First, God did a lot of creating. Some people say he even created things twice, although I don’t buy it. He started on day one, finished on the seventh day and then rested. Genesis doesn’t make it clear how far into the seventh day he worked but it clearly states that he did not finish at the end of the sixth day, he finished on the seventh day. This makes perfect sense because the Sabbath starts at sunset on Friday. What? How do I know this? Because Jesus told me. He observed the Sabbath starting on Friday at sunset. Jesus was, after all, a Jew.
