It is a routine process in prototyping shops to take a program, download it into a stereolithography machine, and program it to make a model of a part. Some of the parts made this way are as complicated as ships in bottles. The piece magically takes place within the tank of liquid resin. As the platform is raised, the light hits and hardens the desired part of the plastic, turning it into a solid.
Another version of this process uses something like an old-fashioned ink-jet printer. Instead of printing with ink, it deposits bits of plastic to build up a part.
This shows Catholic Fundamentalists that, from the potters’ wheels to stereolithography, we human programs have been programmed and downloaded “in His image”. We have been given the ability to crudely duplicate the process by which The Loving Programmer wrote and downloaded The Creation Program and countless (by us) sub-programs within it. The more clearly we see this, the more we understand how much greater God is than we are. As this happens, we find ourselves, almost automatically, avoiding thoughts, words, and deeds that offend Him.
When we look at anything occurring naturally around us, we are seeing one of The Loving Programmer’s programs. His are far more complicated than ours. His living programs are self-replicating, so that oak trees produce an acorn program in which is written the Oak Tree Program. We, ourselves, are also self-replicating programs.
Our most important programming job? To download as much information as possible as to what the purpose of our own, individual human program is. Then, to do it.
For most of us, our most important job, after belief and obedience, is to replicate our program’s, and our spouse’s. Hopefully, lots and lots of times.
