rossum
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God is omniscient. He knows everything: past, present and future. It is as if His 'memory' extended into the future as well as the past. In effect a sort of omni-google from which God can retrieve anything at will.
A designer starts from a blank page and adds things to the page to create the design. God does not do that; He merely accesses His omni-google and retrieves the completed design which is already held there. He does not create anything new, He merely replicates what was already present in His omni-google. That is not design, simply retrieval of existing data, which is a very different operation.
Whatever it is that God does, it is not design. God cannot design anything new because everything that has existed, does exist or will exist is already available in God's own personal omni-google feed. There is nothing God can do that is not already in His omni-google.
A designer starts from a blank page and adds things to the page to create the design. God does not do that; He merely accesses His omni-google and retrieves the completed design which is already held there. He does not create anything new, He merely replicates what was already present in His omni-google. That is not design, simply retrieval of existing data, which is a very different operation.
Whatever it is that God does, it is not design. God cannot design anything new because everything that has existed, does exist or will exist is already available in God's own personal omni-google feed. There is nothing God can do that is not already in His omni-google.