From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2003 - 14:02:22 EDT
Walter Hicks wrote:
>
> Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Suggestion of apparent age of the earth are abhorrent as if God did that
> > then he is a liar and unworthy of worship. Period.
>
> Thinking about what God may or may not do is always presumptuous. However, being
> made in His image, maybe we can learn from those things which we ourselves do.
>
> Recently, we all received a post from the inventor of a sophisticated AI
> program. The AI are inserted into a program which has many separately generated
> parts. Beyond any doubt, the programmer did not start with a blank sheet of
> paper and generate the program one step at a time. He starts with certain
> building blocks and inserts the AI into them. It is not "apparent age" ---- it
> is a real program whichever way he does it.
Walt - We've gone around on the "apparent age" idea before & I don't want to
belabor the matter, but your analogy here raises a flag. The point of traditional
doctrines of creation /ex nihilo/ is precisely that God _didn't_ have to start with
certain bulding blocks.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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