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[KT45]

Never mind he came back.

[roknrolr]

Yet the human mind that created the computer is slower, weaker, simpler, has less memory than it's 'creation', and doesn't have instant messaging.

Hence, more pure and simple.

I'm just saying, an argument could be made...

What if a human could make an external universe that had the potention for self-evolution, then in time the system became higher than the creator? Maybe God lost control of his project in the Garden of Eden and has been trying to bring it back down to something he can deal with? We evolved beyond the creator, and salvation is a step backwards. Why not?

Ooh, I like that theory. I really like that theory. It's nice and neat and there are no obvious holes. That is something to think about for sure. I want to test that theory out on some religious people that I know. I'll let you know what they say.

[Poonis]

I find it peculiar that when a nontheist asks a theist for evidence of the existence of their god, the theist always only offers up one of two things:

1. written/verbal communication (bible, preaching, etc)
2. violence (crusades, inquisitions, holy wars, etc)

Why cannot a theist, if only for a second, summon their god for the world to percieve, in the absence of the above? Do they wish for us to think that the sum of their god is words and/or violence (products of man alone) and nothing more?

[duderonomy]

Yet the human mind that created the computer is slower, weaker, simpler, has less memory than it's 'creation', and doesn't have instant messaging.

Hence, more pure and simple.

I'm just saying, an argument could be made...

What if a human could make an external universe that had the potention for self-evolution, then in time the system became higher than the creator? Maybe God lost control of his project in the Garden of Eden and has been trying to bring it back down to something he can deal with? We evolved beyond the creator, and salvation is a step backwards. Why not?

"We" evolved beyond our human creator? You sound like a frakkin' Cylon!

Really, I haven't visited this part of Ex-C in a long time, and I forgot that I even posted here until tonight. I've yet to read the entire debate. Your question is rhetorical, right?

[Antlerman]

Yet the human mind that created the computer is slower, weaker, simpler, has less memory than it's 'creation', and doesn't have instant messaging.

Hence, more pure and simple.

I'm just saying, an argument could be made...

What if a human could make an external universe that had the potention for self-evolution, then in time the system became higher than the creator? Maybe God lost control of his project in the Garden of Eden and has been trying to bring it back down to something he can deal with? We evolved beyond the creator, and salvation is a step backwards. Why not?

"We" evolved beyond our human creator? You sound like a frakkin' Cylon!

Really, I haven't visited this part of Ex-C in a long time, and I forgot that I even posted here until tonight. I've yet to read the entire debate. Your question is rhetorical, right?

Dude, I posted this like six years ago! Yes, I think I was just trying to deconstruct the literalist interpretation into any one of a thousand plausible speculations.