Stephen Fry on God...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

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"Bone cancer in children? How dare you!"

[stone space]

1. What an idiot!

How many universes has he created?

Does he know from experience what is easy to do and what is hard?

[snooper2]

3. so, good sarcasm is when you can't really tell one way or the other right?

[stone space]

4. I don't think it is sarcasm.

He seems to honestly believe that he can tell what is and is not possible (and even easy) in universe creation technology that our species has yet to master.

Like him, I have my own suspicions, which run somewhat counter to his.

I suspect that by the time our species masters universe creation technology, we'll find it very difficult to micromanage our newly created universes once they have been created.

It's one thing to create universes, but it's another thing entirely to play Maxwell's Demon inside them once they have been created.

Playing Maxwell's Demon within a universe seems to me to be a much more difficult problem than creating a universe in the first place.

[snooper2]

5. No, I was talking about your reply...sarcasm

And now apparently, I find out, I was wrong

[stone space]

6. No, I really do think that playing Maxwell's Demon is hard, not easy.

Even for species with universe creation technology.

[snooper2]

7. Well, you ever see god try to play minecraft?

He actually sucks at building worlds

[stone space]

9. Can't see the video right now. I'll have to watch later.

Never played Minecraft, though, so I don't know how it works.

I'm guessing that I'd do worse.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

13. This sub-thread is hilarious! nt

[Warren Stupidity]

8. you lack the appropriate history.

had you been familiar with the oeuvre, having a poe event could have been avoided.

[tkmorris]

10. If He can't do better than this, He ain't God

[seveneyes]

12. Piece of cake

Any God that can answer an infinite number of prayers 27 * 7 can handle the mere physics of Universe creation. Allowing the misery of innocents has no excuse.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Love him.

The fictional character God is a sociopath...I'm glad it doesn't exist.

[Scuba]

11. This is why I became an atheist. The god I'd been taught was real was not worthy of worship.

In fact, he was worthy of disdain.

[DonViejo]

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