Re: A loveing and careing God?

Chris Bell wrote:
 
> lynx wrote:
>> Chris Bell wrote:
>>
>>> Barry OGrady wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:31:45 GMT, lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>> *snip*
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What Mark calls God the rest of us call nature or the universe.
>>>> No wonder Mark's God lacks intelligence.
>>>>
>>> God lacks intelligence? How can that be when God is infinite, 
>>> encompassing the whole universe and all the "intelligent" beings 
>>> with it? Seems to me that God has all the intelligence. Its someone 
>>> closer to home who lacks in that department Barry
>>
>>
>> If this world is the best an 'intelligent' God can do, then he 
>> stuffed up big time! and it speaks very little for His so-called 
>> intelligence.
>>
> I don't understand this comment. 
 
Oh really? You think that a world where the lot of mankind is to suffer 
from all manner of causes- natural disasters, famine, sickness and 
disease, etc.,- and whose only remedy is the slow and painstaking 
evolution of knowledge of how to overcome this situation over countless 
centuries is a good plan?
 
> This world is still evolving, and it is likely if not certain that it 
> will produce much more intelligence yet, probably through intelligent 
> machines (computers) which will have many times the information 
> processing power of us mere humans. 
 
So what?
 
> How can we know what the limits to intelligence are? Do we really 
> understand what intelligence is?
>>>
>
> Chris


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