Analogies - Computers and the World

We are able, as humans to make amazing digital worlds. We can make them in any size and shape you can imagine. They have whatever things you want them to have. Trees, buildings, fantastic creatures, and even truly bottomless cups of coffee. Our imaginations are free to create what we want.

So as a thought experiment lets create a digital world. Let's call it digiTown. It has people in it. It has houses and cars and everything a normal town would. As the programmer, we have access to every single bit of information about that town. We know how many people are in it exactly. We know the exact characteristics about every person in digiTown. We know where everyone is, what they are doing, and since we control the program we can run back and forth in the timeline so we know what will happen too. We know everything that can be known about it.

We are the programmer too. So we can add things we want and take out things we don't want. Being that it is digital, we have can bestow unlimited resources at our whim. We could put a brand new digiCamerro in every driveway in digiTown and it doesn't reduce our unlimited digital resources one iota.

We even have control over the very fabric of space and time in digiTown. If we wanted to change the characteristics of a material, say water, or if we wanted to pause the day/night cycle and make it day for 24 hours we could. We could control every little aspect of every digiAtom.

This is the analogy I use to understand G-d and His interactions with us and our world. I suspect it is a bit off, but it fits in every way I know of. It makes me more able to understand His limitless power and knowledge. It is still just as mind boggling, but it helps me relate a little more.