A Humble Question
Imagine you are Tomohiro Nishikado, the almost anonymous Japanese gentleman who created Space Invaders. You wrote that amazing piece of software in 0.0000016GB of RAM and it ran pretty smoothly on a 0.002GHz Intel 8080 chip.
You made each space invader move horizontally one unit per second. When it hits the edge of the screen, it moves down one unit, and then horizontally in the other direction. Each alien is also coded to drop a bomb at specified intervals under certain conditions.
You worked out the algorithm, and wrote the code to achieve what you want each creature to do. The game works! It is bug free.
Can a space invader question why it is limited to moving horizontally and down vertically? Can it object? Can those at the bottom row claim unfairness, because they will be shot at first?
You the Maker are in a different realm from the creatures you have created.
It is within your will and good pleasure, as the Maker, to decide which creature can move more swiftly or have more firepower? The total and absolute right to decide how the game goes resides in you.
Even if it is 2018, and there are gigabytes of memory and immense computing power, and with machine learning, whatnots, and the other Singularity approaching, the creatures you have created can only do what you have intended and designed for them. They cannot question why you did it that way. Even if they do, you are not obliged to tell them. This is the privilege of you being the Maker.
(What the space invader can do is not to be confused with you writing a few lines of code to close a switch that ignites a bomb to kill yourself, the Creator. In this latter case, who killed you? You or the ability of the few lines of code?)
I don't expect a non-Christian scientist to find it arrogant to question the one who created him. But I expect him to be able to apply scientific reasoning and logic and realize that it is ludicrous to even think of doing so.
Very frequently, we hear of atheists asking why, if there is a God, did he do this or do that? Why is someone blessed with earthly riches while another is cursed with earthly misfortunes? If we accept the hypothesis that the Bible is true, just like all scientists accept that F = ma to be true, then such questions are just as silly as the space invader questioning why.
It then follows that the whole idea of the God hypothesis is absurd. It is logically impossible because the creator is operating in a domain entirely different from ours. Scientists who profess that they only believe in reason and logic somehow cannot understand or accept this reality.
The more appropriate hypothesis to challenge should be "the Bible is true", and thence proceed to prove it otherwise.
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You made each space invader move horizontally one unit per second. When it hits the edge of the screen, it moves down one unit, and then horizontally in the other direction. Each alien is also coded to drop a bomb at specified intervals under certain conditions.
You worked out the algorithm, and wrote the code to achieve what you want each creature to do. The game works! It is bug free.
Can a space invader question why it is limited to moving horizontally and down vertically? Can it object? Can those at the bottom row claim unfairness, because they will be shot at first?
You the Maker are in a different realm from the creatures you have created.
It is within your will and good pleasure, as the Maker, to decide which creature can move more swiftly or have more firepower? The total and absolute right to decide how the game goes resides in you.
Even if it is 2018, and there are gigabytes of memory and immense computing power, and with machine learning, whatnots, and the other Singularity approaching, the creatures you have created can only do what you have intended and designed for them. They cannot question why you did it that way. Even if they do, you are not obliged to tell them. This is the privilege of you being the Maker.
(What the space invader can do is not to be confused with you writing a few lines of code to close a switch that ignites a bomb to kill yourself, the Creator. In this latter case, who killed you? You or the ability of the few lines of code?)
I don't expect a non-Christian scientist to find it arrogant to question the one who created him. But I expect him to be able to apply scientific reasoning and logic and realize that it is ludicrous to even think of doing so.
Very frequently, we hear of atheists asking why, if there is a God, did he do this or do that? Why is someone blessed with earthly riches while another is cursed with earthly misfortunes? If we accept the hypothesis that the Bible is true, just like all scientists accept that F = ma to be true, then such questions are just as silly as the space invader questioning why.
It then follows that the whole idea of the God hypothesis is absurd. It is logically impossible because the creator is operating in a domain entirely different from ours. Scientists who profess that they only believe in reason and logic somehow cannot understand or accept this reality.
The more appropriate hypothesis to challenge should be "the Bible is true", and thence proceed to prove it otherwise.
» Next…
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