Very interesting discussion. My three cents:
- Eru isn't the Christian God, as there is no Christ in ME. I think that that's significant, not me just being silly.
- People use the word 'god' like they know what they are talking about. Think about that we can see, via the Hubble telescope - galaxies smashing together! The universe is at least 13 billion light years across. Any god worth its salt is bigger than these. And yet we speak of omni---. Methink that our conceptions of god are merely 'human to some exponential power,' which is not even a jot or tittle compared to a real god.
- Assume you are Eru, up posting on the Barrow Downs about Turin. You - you - decide to begin typing. Your hands respond without you barely even considering them. The muscles within your hands are doing what they need to do to flex your fingers just so. The cells that make up these muscles are interacting with their neighbors to move each strand of muscle in the right way (and may I never see another myosin protein). The molecules within these cells (and there's quite a few) do the jobs that are their nature, whether metabolizing ATP or sending waste products out the cell membrane. These molecules aren't actually typing, and are not aware that they are typing, but without them, no words appear in your post.
Those molecules are made of atoms, and those are made up of sub-atomic particles with names that put the lie to the notion that scientists aren't funny. At this level, you don't even know 'where' or 'when' a particle is, and there's even the probability that particle is an anti-particle, or somewhere it should never be, or even moving backward in time.
Yet these words appear.
Eru, or god, might be like that, and his free will creations just a bunch of quarks, bosons and prideful humans.
