[philipswood]

I think this is just Carl Sagan's definition of what he (as an atheist) thinks an Almighty Deity _should_ be able to do.

I mean, being able to write an arbitrary message in a logical constant like Pi sounds harder than just merely creating the physical universe, no?

Also, your dismay of the idea sounds like a kind of Platonism: "Obviously" the logical rational reality of mathematics just is, right?

[pacman128]

It's definitely a type of Platonism. The question isn't how hard it is, but if it's possible at all.

[philipswood]

That probably sort of his point, I guess: a genuine God should be able to do the impossible and this is an interesting kind of impossible.