DAMN! Russell replied before me!!
I was going to say - George you're a bloody genius. Stand up and take
a bow. Wait till I tell his Reverend the Archbishop of thingummy this!
He won't believe it I'll bet
"Onward!" as Stephen goes
Kim
On 23/11/2005, at 8:37 AM, Russell Standish wrote:
> Nice one George!
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:46:47AM -0800, George Levy wrote:
>> Kim Jones wrote:
>>
>>> can God in her omniscient, omnipotent wisdom create a rock that
>>> is so
>>> heavy even God herself cannot lift it? ;-)
>>>
>>> Kim Jones
>>
>>
>> Along these lines I found a way to resolve the theist and the atheist
>> viewpoints: It is simply to assert that god is so big and powerful
>> (omniscient and omnipotent) that he is the creator of a world
>> capable of
>> creating itself. Hence his role in creation is nil even though he
>> is the
>> creator. This approach allows the scientific process to continue
>> as if
>> there were no god. Evolution is OK. The big bang is OK. It also
>> satisfies the theists because it raises god to such unimaginable
>> level
>> of power that he is able create this way: by doing nothing. This
>> god is
>> surely bigger than any "hands-on-creation" god that classical
>> religions
>> have come up with. ;-)
>>
>> George
>>
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