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Click to: Browse other rants - Contribute To link to this rant, copy this text: Author: Man-Eating Armadillo Category: Speculative Subject: God and programmers Date: 03/25/2006 Rating:  So I was thinking earlier today (do you do your best thinking in the shower too?) - I don't really understand how any programmer can't believe in God. I mean think about it. God works like a programmer. Parallels: 1: -A programmer creates an absolutely enormous program, runs it, and finds an error really early. -God creates an absolutely huge universe, sets it into motion, and something goes wrong really fast (Adam, Satan, sin, etc.). 2: -The programmer tries to fix the problem, but after numerous failed attempts, decides just to delete the entire part of the program that's causing the error and rewrite it. -God gets tired of trying to fix the problem, so he decides to just send a flood to wipe out the problem area of his creation. 3: -The programmer then rewrites and rebuilds that part of the problem, hoping the error will disappear. It doesn't. -God lets the people repopulate, hoping it will be better this time around. It isn't. 4: -So, the programmer decides to just let the program run with the error and hopes the result is still satisfactory. It isn't. -So, God decides to give Israel the Promised Land anyway, even though they're still sinful, hoping it won't be too much of a problem. It is. 5: -So, finally, the programmer decides to just provide a quick fix - not thorough, doesn't fix the source of the problem, but makes the program at least run without error. -So, finally, God decides to provide a quick fix - sending His Son, so that the problem doesn't matter nearly as much as it had because now there's a solution that doesn't involve simply getting rid of the problem. 6: -The program runs, and while it's still a little buggy and hangs up sometimes, the output is correct. -The Earth turns, and while it's still sinful and evil, the final result is as God intended. Hmm. |