[HN Gopher] Does God Control the Weather? (2004)
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Does God Control the Weather? (2004)
Author : cbsks
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-06-24 19:38 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theweatherprediction.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theweatherprediction.com)
| lucasnortj wrote:
| Does god control when I go to the toilet?
| fzzzy wrote:
| Yes.
| anakaine wrote:
| So, Holy crap?
| badrabbit wrote:
| > ... it would mean He chooses to hurt and kill people and that
| is bad.
|
| For humans, hurting other humans is bad. Why would one presume
| the same applies to the creator of all things? Because God
| created all things, including all laws of absolute morality,
| everything he does is right and good. Not just causing harm but
| doing pretty much anything to humans is entirely within the
| authority of the creator of humans, since humans exist to fulfill
| the purpose of their creator (similar to how a programmer's
| program is created to fulfill the programmer's will).
|
| Hurting other humans is wrong in most cases for other humans
| because we lack the authority. The Creator, by definition has
| that authority, not just to hurt but to cause all the good
| experiences of life.
|
| That said, hurting people is not the same as evil. An Almighty
| creator who knows all and exists beyond the constraints of time
| and space has no need to resort to evil.
|
| The Christian God I believe in , _chooses_ to have good will and
| purpose towards humans even though he has the authority to not do
| so, because of his unchanging good character. Bad things happen
| to everyone, that is what justice is for. in it 's time God will
| make all wrong right.
|
| If you believe an almighty God who only does things people like
| and cannot prevent bad things from happenning,then you don't
| really believe in the almighty and all knowing part in my
| opinion.
| saltdoo wrote:
| Exactly. The 'God' discussed here seems to imply ethics which
| the creator of all things would not be subject to. Why would
| the creator of all things have an issue with killing folks via
| weather, since all humans die?
| lalaland1125 wrote:
| > Why would the creator of all things have an issue with
| killing folks via weather, since all humans die?
|
| The argument here is generally that the Bible would be wrong
| in that case because the Bible claims that God is benevolent.
|
| The point is to show that either one of two things is true:
| Either the bible is wrong or God does not exist.
| cbsks wrote:
| In addition to this silly page, this website has a bunch of
| really cool technical details on weather prediction! I know
| nothing about weather forecasting, but I've enjoyed reading some
| random articles on it.
|
| Here's an interesting one about how the timing of front affects
| the forecast: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints2/424/
|
| Here's another one about forecasting ice on roads:
| http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/7/
|
| Websites like this remind me why the Internet is great.
|
| (re-posted at the invitation of dang)
| rashkov wrote:
| I like how it goes from rather simplistic ideas to rather nuanced
| ones as it gets to the last section. Reminds me of some of the
| fun philosophical chats one would have in high school and
| college.
|
| Also seconding cbsks' comment about the rest of this site being a
| great resource and a work of love, which appears to be still
| going from the Web 1.0 days
| Lammy wrote:
| Does humanity-collectively == God? Then maybe someday yeah
| https://web.archive.org/web/19970429012543/http://www.au.af....
| lalaland1125 wrote:
| In case people are interested in this topic, I highly recommend
| that they explore the "Problem of Evil" page
| (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/) on Stanford's
| Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
|
| The problem of evil remains the number one argument against the
| existence of a powerful benevolent God.
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