I think there's room for both, but straight-creationism could use some tweaking. I believe that everything that happened after the big bang happened as scientists say it did/is doing. But what touched off the big bang? Take the kid with the firecracker example. They say God is all-knowing, and all-seeing. They also say he's timeless. Ok, so if you were to construct a telescope that was able to peer through the boundary of the universe, would you see a kid frozen mid shout at the explosion he just created, or would you see a stream of matrix-like characters, which is how we would perceive being inside God's computer if the universe is just a massive program (to our perspective, an existence simulation to His). You can't rule out the kid with the firecracker because if the entire span of existence were to be played out in a fraction of a second, occupants of that universe looking out would see this world totally frozen in time. If we're a simulation on God's cosmic hard drive, is his machine off? Is it on, right now? Is he busy writing programs for warp drive now? Or is he, like all players of the Sims, just fucking with us?
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(from bash.org) <Twig> I just had an argument with a girl I know. She was saying how it's unfair that if a guy fucks a different girl every week, he's a legend, but if a girl fucks just two guys in a year, she's a slut. So in response I told her that if a key opens lots of locks, then it's a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it's a shitty lock. That shut her up.
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