Life,the universe and everything tend to be explained in the technology of the times.
2000 years ago, this was the case. Today it is still the case. In the future, it will continue to be the case. Does "
It was, It is, It will be" ring a bell here?
Let me share a metaphor with the technology of our times:
The problem between Science and Religion is one of both understanding and application. One cannot apply software explanations upon hardware realities and hardware explanations upon software realities -- without totally and utterly messing up the end user product guide. The result will consistently bring dissatisfaction to those users who are emphatic about reading such useless documents and insistent on using the product according to
what is Written. (Does this sound familiar?)
Hardware operates within specific constraints with probabilities that can occur at random outside those constraints due to things that sneak into the design due to limitations in material quality.
In other words, here's what we know to be probable and "oh, by the way" here are a few things that are highly improbable
but possible given some unexplained mechanism or our limited ability to control the actual product once it gets into the hands of truly
unruly end users.
Software operates much the same way. The only thing that is different is that with software, the coding possibilities are infinitely greater than those of hardware. In other words, with software,
anything is possible. (does this ring a bell here too?) What's more, DUE TO IT'S INFINITE FLEXIBILITY,
anything is also probable!
Let's apply some of this toward "real" world situations.The personalities of human beings are software driven and hardware supported. This means that given any one set of possible behavioral patterns, the likelihood of this specific set being manifested within a hardware support structure is greatly enhanced by that hardware design.
In other words,
one is not going to get Einstein software results if the brain anatomy and its innate operating systems only supports an IQ of 90. The software simply will never run on that system and hence both the operating system and software will never manifest in that mainframe.
On the other hand, if the mainframe structure is better than average and the operating system and hardware are well maintained, the probability of software development beyond the norm is increased and the likelihood of that system exceeding the norm is much higher. (BTW - As an aside, this is why re-incarnation works so well! Software sets tend to re-emerge spontaneously given the right conditions. It matters not what language is used. Given the right set of conditions, the world is gonna recreate you! "You" can't help but happen! It's inherent in the world's design.
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But I digress.
The point I'm earnestly making effort to express here is:
God is both a software and hardware manufacturer. The rules God uses in manufacturing both software and hardware vary depending upon God's design intent and God's expressed application at any one instant -- which change from moment to moment depending upon litigation and other given factors within the support environment. Each will not follow the same rules as the other, these rules change constantly and to try to make sense of one construct using the rules of the other is like trying to fly fish for dead video screen sprites using hairy elephant guns as tasty live bait locked in a imaginary vault where no one can begin to fathom the right turn signal blink ratio or combination. The results will not make sense because the assumptions, paradigm, methodology, tools and materials are all wrong.
Which leads me to state the following without reservation as a biased observer intentionally infecting this thread:
- Most Religions try to explain reality using software codes that can't explain hardware design realities.
- Most Sciences try to explain reality using hardware design that can't explain software code realities.
They each fail miserably in their own wonderful way but succeed drastically in other ways that the other can't possibly start to imagine.
But, what do I know?
Bro. Coach N