Below are two claims, one from science; one from the Bible:
Claima A: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
That's the total number of stars in the known universe, according to a study by Australian astronomers. It's also about 10 times as many stars as grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts. !!!!
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Posted: 12:29 AM EDT (0429 GMT)http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/index.html
CLAIM 2: Psalm 147: 4
He (God) telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
If both claims are correct (which I believe), what value can we put on the IQ of God who, it is said, knows both the number and names of all the 70 sextillion+ stars in the universe? How many computers can do that job?
2007-06-27 22:57:27 · 7 answers · asked by The Pastor 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
IQ and memory are two different things, some autistic people have the gift to remember every word in every book they have ever read, give them an IQ test and they fail. secondly God has no IQ, as God is God, always been there always will be, not finite thinking as in human terms, not thinking even but just a higher power. Im sure a computer can store all the names of all the stars in the universe, and recall them.
Secondly im sure God knows how to google the answer to all the stars, or use yahoo questions if he needs to recall them :)
2007-06-27 23:09:27 · answer #1 · answered by Larry 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The 70 sextillion is an estimate based on the brightness of distant galaxies, I would hazard to say. At great distances, individual stars cannot be resolved in a telescope or counted. Since the distribution of galaxies in the known Universe is approximately known, and the approximate number of stars in "nearby galaxies" is also approximately known, then it is possible through some fairly straightforward arithmetic to estimate the number of stars in the (known) Universe.
This depends on the assumption that conditions in the more distant parts of the Universe are similar to those within the local few hundred thousand parsecs. This may of course be untrue.
This sort of estimate has a large margin for error which the astronomers will acknowledge but will not be reported in the popular media as journalists generally do not understand such things.
Your second claim also contains assumptions. 1. That there is a divine being. 2. That this divine being has the slightest interest in the Universe 3. That this divine being is as represented in the Psalms. Any of these may be untrue.
2007-06-28 06:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't compare humans, computers and God. IQ is not needed to catalogue and remember names. IQ comes into picture with what you do with that data.
2007-06-28 06:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing to do with IQ, it just proves he's an autist.
Which, incidentally, would explain why he doesn't seem to take much note of Earthly affairs theses days.
2007-06-28 07:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by The Arkady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is omnipotent! dont dare compare him to computers of any sort. technology will not surpass Him! He invented IQ!
2007-06-28 06:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being able to memorize a long list does not mean someone is intelligent. Being able to understand what you have memorized does.
2007-06-28 06:10:11 · answer #6 · answered by Amy W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't they call them idiot savants?
2007-06-28 07:17:36 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋