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To: jttmab who wrote (15177)	10/1/2002 12:25:16 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

god created the laws of physics as we know them to be. Sure the universe could be some grand laboratory experiment, but the point remains about it unfolding with a goal. There is no way I know to tell if the future is predetermied, which more or less says that we are a simulation of a universe or that it's all in your head. If that is not the case, then the information will either deteriorate or an attempt would need to be made by the goal keeping mechanism to preserve the information. Such attempts would leave evidence since a correction takes twice the amount of information (You have to know both the information and the fact that it is right or wrong). It doesn't really matter if the correction is done from within, or from outside the universe (if such a thing exists) as it is the change in information that is key, not the mechanism for manipulating it. I've heard explanations of subtle correction, but they amount to knowing that a deviation from the goal is going to happen before it does, which again implies that the future is fated. Perhaps a superior being could create a phenomina which unfolds into a universe, perhaps with stable physical properties. That in itself could be thought of a goal, and one which is accomplished. That's not the kind of limited mechanism that is generally referred to as a goal for a deity. TP