interstellar laundrette

Have you ever been asked the question “if God is so powerful that he can do anything, can he create a rock that is too heavy for him to lift?” It’s a logic game, and the reasoning goes like this: God, if he exists, is omnipotent [can do anything],Therefore, there can be nothing that he cannot do.if something can be found that God cannot do,then he is either not omnipotent,and not really God,or he does not exist.If God an create a rock that God cannot lift,then there is something he cannot do [lift the rock]if he cannot create such a rock,then there is something he cannot do [create the rock]therefore, in either case, he is not omnipotent,and not really Godor he does not exist. A lot of people consider this argument to be fair reason to disbelieve God’s existence entirely. When we say there is nothing God cannot do, what do we really mean? We tend to think of omnipotence as a big thing, that there is no grandiose display of power that God is not capable of. Are we still prepared t...

Most people have heard in one form or another the idea of the ill-fated and potentially furious cat from Shrödinger's famous thought experiment. Now I'm not a great scientific mind and it isn't my intention today to explain how that concept works or doesn't, so apologies to anyone who understands it better than me if I over-simplify it here. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, in the mid 1930's a fellow named Shrödinger was involved in the scientific discussion about how to understand quantum mechanics, and came up with an analogy that highlighted some of the issues he saw as potentially problematic in dealing with quantum entanglement by bringing the microscopic up to macro scale. (if you didn't understand all of that, it's okay – it's pretty complicated, and not necessary to follow the rest of the text here) In his thought experiment (meaning he didn't actually do this, just thought about it) a cat would be placed into a s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXmkftK0Sw*     Why does your heaven resemble earth with the same basic materials? It doesn't, we only have human words for those who have seen it to describe what they saw. I recently was in the position of having to find the words to describe a polished single surface floor rendered to look like plastic in the words of a fictional character who grew up in a shoemaker's house in a late medieval village in a house where the floor was probably straw covered dirt, or maybe wood, and stone floors with visible seams or natural surfaces were likely to be the only other options in his vocabulary. I really didn't want to say a floor like a single polished stone, but the only way i could find that he could describe it. Why does your god govern in a way that reflects the period in which he was written about? He doesn't, his system of governance was entirely unlike anything that existed in the time, until he established it, and then it was the on...

MINISTER: Ben, will you take Jess as your wife, to share your faith, and make a life? BEN: Yes, I take her as my wife we'll share our faith and make a life. MINISTER: Even if you're filthy rich, or sad and broke and in a ditch? BEN: Even if we're filthy rich, or sad and broke and in a ditch. I will take her as my wife and i will love her all my life. MINISTER: good or better, bad or worst, to choose to build this union first. BEN: for good or better, bad or worst, I'll choose to build this union first. even if we're filthy rich, or sad and broke and in a ditch. I do not like green eggs and.. oh.. Er, I will take Jess as my wife and i will love her all my life. MINISTER: forsaking all, you'll choose to stay, in health or sickness, come what may, BEN: forsaking all, I choose to stay, in health or sickness, come what may, for good or better, bad or worst, I'll choose to build this union first. even if we're filthy rich, or sad and...