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I create a block of Swiss cheese ex nihilo.
Should it have holes in it?
Should it have holes in it?
I create a block of Swiss cheese ex nihilo.
Should it have holes in it?
Cheese is my territory and silly challenges are for AV. You're encroaching on some serious territory pal!
Uh no?
Manufacturer's choice.
Actually, AV, it's not. The holes in Swiss cheese are a result of the bacteria eating at the lactic acid (and excreting CO2 gas as a waste product) during the cheese's normal production.
This cheese, however, is not being made normally, but rather, ex nihilo -- No bacteria.
So, should it have holes in it?
Dumb question but what is swiss cheese without the holes?
Well, that's the point, isn't it? Are the holes what define Swiss cheese as Swiss Cheese, or are they incidental?
Anyone who knows anything about Swiss cheese knows they're incidental -- an unavoidable result of the way it's normally made...
... so now the question is, what happens when it's not made "normally"?
Well if swiss cheese has holes in it as an inherent characteristic then yes the cheese you create would have holes. This is related to your point. Are the signs of aging on this earth inherent to it? Does the earth NEED fossils, craters, canyons, etc? I would say no.
And I would say the Swiss cheese doesn't need the holes -- it's not an inherent characteristic of the cheese, but an inherent characteristic of the natural process which makes it. Since we're not using a natural process to make this cheese...
I create a block of Swiss cheese ex nihilo.Should it have holes in it?
Yes. Just as the fish were "normal", the bread loaves were "normal"
and the Earth was "normal" when created, so would be the cheese.
Let's "Create" bread, cheese, a knife, and a round slice of tree
to serve it on, with some smoked fish.
All would be average and normal. No special "glow" about them.
If I were to create earth, myself, it would have to cool before use.
Earth is in a state of sin, disconnected from the divine.
So the cheese would just be a solid mass that no one would call swiss cheese.
It might be swiss cheese that most would not recognize as swiss cheese. It would still be swiss cheese, however.
Actually, Val, it is.Actually, AV, it's not.
It's called blind Swiss cheese.Dumb question but what is swiss cheese without the holes?
LOL... so now the question is, what happens when it's not made "normally"?