Creationists

John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:06:00 -0700 (PDT)


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EvMick@aol.com Wrote:

>johnkc@well.com writes:
>> there is room here for those who wish to believe in a creator to
>> find their niche.

No, I never said that, Jonathan Colvin <jcolvin@ican.net> did.

>seems that occams razor would be better...

Without a doubt.

den Otter <neosapient@geocities.com> Wrote:

>According to the bible god has "no beginning and no end" or something
>along these lines, so you don't need other creators.

But the deep question is why there is something rather than nothing, not how
long this state of affairs has been happening, the existence of time after
all is just another thing that needs to be explained. If religion could do
even a little bit better than science in explaining this, if it could just
give me a hint of why there hasn't always not been a God then I'd be a
religious man. It can't so I'm not.

>I wonder whether SIs will be able to perform the same trick,
>strechting their existence infinitely both forwards and backwards in
>time.

If God did exist he'd be asking himself the same deep questions we are.

John K Clark johnkc@well.com

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