HerbieP

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As a young man I studied theoretical physics for a number of years but I have had no more than an amateur interest since and would not claim to have kept up with recent developments. My longest stretch in settling to anything was as an artist. A generous person would now regard me as a renaissance man, a shrewd one would recognise a dilettante.

I am married with two children and live for the most part in rural Suffolk, England, on a plot shared with horses and chickens.

I now work for an old endowed charity, manipulating assets to achieve the best return and trying to develop innovative and effective ways to distribute the funds to the least fortunate.

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The power of god

08/18/2008

When god performs miracles does he use superior technology or magic?

I am making a distinction here not made by Mr Arthur C Clarke. Superior technology is just manipulating the real world using real world forces and energies, measurable and in accordance with physical laws, doing the sort of thing that we do ourselves only better. Magic is subverting physical laws; that is working outside of the rules that we are forced to work with.

When god helps Moses with his magic tricks and plagues or Jesus with healing, raising the dead, turning water into wine, extending loves and fishes, walking on water is he sticking to the rules or making it up as he goes along?