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I had an interesting idea the other day that chapter one of Genesis didn't make much sense physically, but could as computer code. I wrote an R script that does accomplish this to some extent. The end result I got was impressive visually, but my code was not that faithful to the instructions. Here is how I interpreted the first two verses:
###In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
#install.packages("sphereplot")
require(sphereplot)
##Create Heavens
rgl.sphgrid(radius = 5, col.long="", col.lat="",
deggap = 15, longtype = "D", add = T, radaxis=F)
http://postimg.org/image/3wvx1cvpd/
##Create Earth
rgl.sphgrid(radius = 1, col.long='', col.lat='',
deggap = 15, longtype = "D",add = T, radaxis=F)
http://postimg.org/image/he6w4kx19/
[ED NOTE: These links go to the images output by his code, which is neat, but the image host has some ads that, while not pornographic, may not be safe for work in all settings. Use your judgement. -LaminatorX]
##Now the earth was formless and empty,
##darkness was over the surface of the deep,
bg3d(color=c("darkslategray3","Black"),
fogtype="exp2", sphere=TRUE, back="fill")
http://postimg.org/image/j3wikf68f/
##and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
view3d(phi=90, theta=180, zoom=.55)
http://postimg.org/image/9aazwxjkd/
Does Soylent have any other ideas on how to interpret these two verses? More verses to come if there is any interest.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 14 2015, @09:55PM
Yes, Genesis, a religious book, should focus on scientific discoveries, which men have been able to do on their own: some definitions, basic math concepts, advanced math concepts, some classical, quantum, string, X, Y, Z mechanics. All of this to prove they are genuine, no matter if such a proof cannot exist in the first place, because a sufficient tech advancement is indistinguishable from divine power.
Only then, when it's reached twelve volumes, you might know something about the Adam guy.
This makes so much sense, thank you Dawkins and company.
The funny thing is that whatever atheist, put in the place of a god (that is, for example, admin of a system that is simulating self-aware entities), when first communicating with those entities and try to describe them his world and his idea, not school them about the details of the CPUs hosting the simulation). He'd probably run into uncommunicable concepts (3d for 2d creatures is spatially unconceivable) and so on.
Atheists pls. You can be atheists without making dumb objections. Study the problem at a manageable level like I did in the previous paragraph instead of playing the philosopher.
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