Reply #26: To put it another way...

[hunter]

I can ascribe many deeper meanings to question 5. Any being which it is right to call God must have the power to do anything. It doesn't even have to be the same meaning anyone else sees in it. Given the key's to God's car, one person might drive back in time to see Christ risen, another might go four-wheeling on Titan, and another might run over Hitler's mom before he was born.

But question 16. If God exists she could create square circles and make 1 + 1 = 72 is just a silly word game unless you truly believe words and math exist outside of the mind.

It is my understanding that words are just one of the tools I use to communicate with other human beings (or even my dog) and that everything we know about math and physics is little more than an imperfect model of the actual universe.

Square circles? I posted a picture of a bicycle with square wheels. And if I made two 36 cent coins (which would be sort of cool if you enjoy fractions!) then 1 coin + 1 coin would equal 72 cents. Party games.

In question 5 God can do anything. In question 16 God is only messing with your head. To me it was a choice between the omnipotent God of question 5 (True) and the silly word game god of question 16 (false).

The prejudice of this test's author, and your prejudice, is that math and physics directly describe the universe, when in fact they are nothing more than very useful models. Newton thought he had described a wonderful clockwork universe, but he didn't have the entire picture. The greatest physicists of today don't have the entire picture.