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RE: A Day in the Life of the Torah: How Can Time Prove the Authenticity of Genesis by Charlie Shrem
If God can make a star, he can make a stream of photons between it and the earth at the same time.
Does it take 14 billion years to initialize a Star Wars video game? Nope, the Star Wars universe only looks that old, but it was created when you launched the program.
The only reason that science doesn't agree with the Bible is because it refuses to think outside God's Matrix.
Zactly!
By that logic, how do you know the operator of this simulation is omnipotent or omnibenevolent? An ordinary, living organism running this simulator would of course be omnipotent within it, but that no more makes them a god than I am when I play Grand Theft Auto.
You don't know anything about that Operator that He doesn't choose to reveal.
My example doesn't claim to prove anything other than that there is at least one explanation that reconciles science and the Bible.
On the other hand, people who point to scientific observations as proof that their is no God have a problem because I just provided a counter example. I'm sure the SciFi writers of the world can provide many more. Even scientists invent multiverses and other works of the imagination as hypotheses to explain what they are able to observe.
The Truth is, no doubt, more interesting than that.
If we don't know the operator or creator of this particular simulation is omnipotent, then why bother labeling them "god"?
Could just be a dude spinning up a test VM.
Well, if this simulation is being run by a geek in his mother's basement he would be all knowing and all powerful as far as we are concerned. You could call him a "god" in the ordinary human made up sense of the term.
He would not be THE God whom we have come to know and love because of what He has revealed about Himself.
But again, I'm only seeking to point out that scientific "proof" that things appear to be older that 6000 years merely eliminates the most obvious possibilities about how everything works. (It assumes that the creation process is constrained the internal rules of the universe.)
It does not prove that the Biblical account of creation is false, just that Science has made different assumptions - including that the visible universe is not a simulation or a divine thought experiment. (Google "the simulation hypothesis" to see that some scientists do view simulation as a plausible way to explain observed quantum entanglement and particle-wave duality.)