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What Computers Tell Us About God?
By bk | February 15, 2008 23:12
Here is a fantastically flawed presentation titled What do computers tell us about God?”, supposedly written by a candidate for a dual masters (Computer Science/Technology and Policy) at MIT, which is hard to believe since Comp Sci students should have a pretty good handle on logic, seeing as logic is the foundation of computer science.
To be fair, there are some points that, while not particularly insightful, are at least obviously true, such as “humans can create universes inside a computer” - which is true depending on how loosely one defines the term ‘universe’ - though it is perfectly reasonable to call some of the cellular automata and simulation programs a form of universe. Where things get ridiculous is the completely unfounded jump that because people can’t literally insert themselves in to a computer program and communicate with the inhabitants of the computer universe, a creator god could also not insert itself in to our world. The follow on is that there must be some intermediary to communicate (though what this intermediary might be in the computer universe analogy is conveniently skipped. Immediately following is ‘evidence’ from the writings of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Bahá’í Faith (ah, I love the smell of circular reasoning in the morning).
I certainly hope the instructors find this piece as patently ridiculous as most of the Digg commenters, though I’m a bit surprised it made it to the Digg front page at all (though many very silly things do). Hooman Katirai, if that is your real name (and this isn’t a silly stunt), please let me know if you get a passing score on this so I too can get the easiest masters ever from a supposedly top rate institution.
It has just become so hard to say what is a joke and what is real now days, and I hope this is.
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