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  2. From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  4. Subject: Re: Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
  5. Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:17:19 GMT
  6. Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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  9. Message-ID: <1ebgfvINNol2@gap.caltech.edu>
  10. References: <1e3lqaINNadv@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov16.072039.3429@midway.uchicago.edu> <1e88haINN5jv@gap.caltech.edu>,<1992Nov16.214120.27547@midway.uchicago.edu>
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  13.  
  14. In article <1992Nov16.214120.27547@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
  15. >    "Note that this does not restrict the _power_ of the player,
  16. >who may be `omnipotent' with respect to the pinball universe.
  17.  
  18. Already covered in my description of the Deist's god, whom I described, if I
  19. recall correctly, "either can't or chooses not to interfere," or something very
  20. similar to that.  If the god in question is limited by rules, whether those
  21. rules are somehow intrinsic to the universe or they're simply rules that god
  22. has chosen to impose on himself, then he's not necessarily in conflict with
  23. science.  On the other hand, he's not omnipotent in any operational sense
  24. either.
  25.