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The definition of GOD

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NosyNed
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02-04-2008 3:35 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by subbie
02-04-2008 3:29 PM

Indistinguishable from God
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke's third law:
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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I would arrive at:
Any sufficiently powerful sentience is indistinguishable from god.
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At some level of powerfulness we would not know if the entity was all powerful or not.
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At some level of intelligence we might also not know if the entity was intelligent or not.
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02-04-2008 8:15 PM 		Reply to: Message 39 by rulerofthisuniverse
02-04-2008 7:40 PM

Definition
You definition of god tells me exactly nothing. It is a collection of words with no value to me at all.
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