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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/12/2026 2:49 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 2/12/2026 9:53 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:   
   >> ["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.comics.strips.]   
   >> Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:25:57 +0000, Peter Fairbrother   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 30/01/2026 17:03, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> The observable universe is known to be finite, but as for the "whole"   
   >>>> universe - we just don't know. The "whole" universe is very likely very   
   >>>> much bigger than the observable universe, but as we can't ever see the   
   >>>> rest of it .. how can we be sure?   
   >>>   
   >>> How, indeed?   
   >>>   
   >>> A better question is: how can the above be distinguished from   
   >>> religion?   
   >>   
   >> At least from the Middle-eastern monotheistic ones, easily: an all-   
   >> knowing,   
   >> all-observing God isn't possible with a finite speed of light.   
   >>   
   >>     -is   
      
   This assumes that God lives in the same universe that we do.  Robert   
   Sawyer espoused in his excellent book "Calculating God" that God must   
   expend great effort to actually do anything in our universe.   
       https://www.amazon.com/Calculating-God-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0812580354   
      
   Lynn   
      
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