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Re:God's Lonely Programmer by Covzire on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:09PM (#8659123)
I wouldn't classify his belief in God as a "crazy idea" in the purest sense of those words. Scientifically, a God powerful enough to create this universe could easily and rationally be powerful enough to make certain demands of said creation, one of which might rationally be that the created beings need faith in God to achieve their designed capability.

There is a wonderful uniformity to the universe that allows computers to exist. To put that uniformity on a pedastal though and declare there is no God is definitely not a rational belief one can be dogmatic about.

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Re:God's Lonely Programmer by zerouniverse on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:25PM (#8659504)
The notion in your first paragraph sounds like a reasonable assertion to me although it does presuppose the rather dogmatic notion that an omnipotent Creator would "demand faith" rather than "grant a gift of free will / gift of being able to forget he exists".
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Re:God's Lonely Programmer by daveloyall on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:32PM (#8659255)
Well, I did use scare quotes, friend! :)

...This topic has a history of being polarizing. And it's not the topic in this thread.

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