Watched Good Omens season 1 to prepare for season 2, and I'm wondering if it's possible to eff some of Her ineffable plan from the fact that the person most directly responsible for stopping the apocalypse, Newton, did so using what is clearly a divinely inspired superpower. She made him just for that purpose.
But then I remember the one boss I had with the same superpower; he could make computer mice stop working just by touching them.
Now, he knew electronics, and he had a bit of a pranking habit - but I tested this man as thoroughly as I could. Waiting until everyone else left work, so he couldn't be using an accomplice. Checking that he hadn't put some kind of cutout switch with the battery. Checking that he didn't have something up his sleeve. Having him stand on a rubber mat to isolate him, and putting a strap around his wrist to ground him out.
No change. The mouse would work for me, it'd stop working when he tried to use it, and then it'd go back to doing just fine when I tried it a second time.
And the big scary thought that just came to me is this - how many apocraplyses might George have prevented with that power?
"The church used to say, 'No, God didn't allow evolution. Instead, he hid the bones in the rocks to test our faith.'
It didn't work out too well. So now they say, 'Now we know about it, it proves how incredibly clever he was all along.'
It's an infinitely elastic airbag, and there's no argument that I can bring or anyone else can bring against it.
And that's what should make you suspicious."
-- Christopher Hitchens
Concerning biological evolution, the Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him.
Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms, under God’s guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul. [..] So whether the human body was specially created or developed, we are required to hold as a matter of Catholic faith that the human soul is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited from our parents, as our bodies are.
Either god thinks whatever man wants him to think, or everyone who claimed to have figured him out was wrong.
Earlier this week I was thinking about liveblogging this movie and then later that day I saw and Argentinian flag on a bumper sticker on my drive to work...
If Allah finds goodness in your hearts, He will give you better than what has been taken from you, and forgive you. For Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.