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Why does God allow evil and suffering? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by stemy@lemmy.ml to c/atheistmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are programmers all powerful over code they created and then released into the wild? (TLDT: No, but there is likely some control, especially over new versions)

[–] amio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The metaphor would be code running "locally", not released into the wild. So yes. Whatever you originally wrote you could remove, rewrite, augment or fix. If god "released us into the wild" then god is not omnipotent anymore, and it also would never be required for an omnipotent entity.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps, also perhaps the classic Jesuit argument that for judgement to be meaningful free will must exist applies. Similarly a scientist should state the results being experimented on before running the experiment rather than just running p-values on a bunch of resultant data and claiming whatever pops as the intended result. Perhaps God is a scientist with a multiverse of experiments with small tweaks to initial conditions. In that sense you'd have a bunch of (or just one) locally running code(s), but effectively in the wild for fear of tainting the results.

I'm agnostic FWIW, I just find these ideas fertile ground for playing with thoughts.

[–] amio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Perhaps, also perhaps the classic Jesuit argument that for judgement to be meaningful free will must exist applies.[...]
Perhaps God is a scientist with a multiverse of experiments with small tweaks to initial conditions.

Not in any of the mainstream monotheistic views that would be relevant. They are omniwhatever as a matter of... well, canon, I guess.