Failed Proofs #1

From a letter-to-the-editor, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2013, page 109 ...

Letter by Leonard R. Cook, Goleta, California (excerpt) ...

A friend of mine who is deeply religious, was told that the proof of Creationism was that the size of the Moon and its distance from the Earth was intentionally determined so that the Moon could exactly eclipse the sun during a solar eclipse. He was told that this was done deliberately to prove that an intelligent force was involved in Creation. When I informed him that the Moon was much closer to the Earth millions of years ago and that it was gradually moving farther away with time and would eventually only cover a small part of the sun, the discussion was unilaterally discontinued, but not before I was told that that was impossible since the Earth is only about five thousand years old.

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Satan's Big Helper

Long before our entropic prison, the Universe, existed there was the The Palace of Eternity, later known to humans as Heaven where the Creator existed. For reasons that don't make sense, the Creator populated this Palace with angels of various degrees - but why would an omniscient and omnipotent Being need a Divine Bureaucracy?

Long before the Creator breathed life into the human clay, He decided to create the angel Satan, knowing this fellow would rebel against the Creator (omniscience).

The obvious solution to this rebellion would have been to uncreate (omnipotence) Satan, but the Creator decides to cast Satan into his own Kingdom, with immortality and various rival powers to those of the Creator.

Clearly the Creator was never reluctant to destroy that which displeased Him, in later eras, such as the Great Flood or Sodom and Gomorrah. Yet He spares Satan this fate.

Or short of uncreation, why not grant Divine Forgiveness to Satan for his transgressions, as Pat Condell asks (at 2:10 min), "... and then none of this nonsense would be necessary."

So the Great Enemy is established by the loving Creator.

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