<i>"I as a Christian thought I could feel something of the satisfaction that God must have felt when He created the world," Pittman wrote of his work. Christian hackers, Spadaro said, viewed their work as "a form of participation in the 'work' of God in creation."</i><p>Bingo. That's the "creating something from nothing, with merely my thoughts" feeling that I get from programming. Whether you attribute it to the divine is up to you.