RE: Origin
January 22, 2018 at 3:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2018 at 3:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Like...seriously, or as devices? As devices they work for his genre. He'll sell some books I'm sure.
Seriously, though...the moment that it can be conclusively shown that our creator god stories were utter garbage with regards to our origins? That ship sailed nearly two hundred years ago. The people at the helm didn't know it, and they certainly didn't know about each other, and we wouldn't know it for some time....but..in retrospect, that was the beginning of the end. We'd have to be wrong about everything we know about life..right down to the most trivial of shit..and even that wouldn't salvage god stories so much as refine our biology.
-and yet people still believe in those gods. Nobody gives a fuck about "gods" that can be made to fit with the biological reality of our existence. Nobody. You don't find people arguing for that kind of god...you certainly don't find them voting the way they imagine that god would want them to, or going to war because that kind of god would want them to. You find them rejecting it and facts in favor of fantasy.
I don't see why this would change just because a computer told us something that we already know. Circling back around...where I think it fails as a story can be summed up as one god telling us that some other god isn't real. This incredibly competent and powerful entity represented by AI pulls the strings on the characters this way and that, is hiding under ever rock, explains our origins....makes a prophecy for the future..and then goes "poof".
Thanks Jesus! I mean Winston.
Seriously, though...the moment that it can be conclusively shown that our creator god stories were utter garbage with regards to our origins? That ship sailed nearly two hundred years ago. The people at the helm didn't know it, and they certainly didn't know about each other, and we wouldn't know it for some time....but..in retrospect, that was the beginning of the end. We'd have to be wrong about everything we know about life..right down to the most trivial of shit..and even that wouldn't salvage god stories so much as refine our biology.
-and yet people still believe in those gods. Nobody gives a fuck about "gods" that can be made to fit with the biological reality of our existence. Nobody. You don't find people arguing for that kind of god...you certainly don't find them voting the way they imagine that god would want them to, or going to war because that kind of god would want them to. You find them rejecting it and facts in favor of fantasy.
I don't see why this would change just because a computer told us something that we already know. Circling back around...where I think it fails as a story can be summed up as one god telling us that some other god isn't real. This incredibly competent and powerful entity represented by AI pulls the strings on the characters this way and that, is hiding under ever rock, explains our origins....makes a prophecy for the future..and then goes "poof".
Thanks Jesus! I mean Winston.
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