Will Christianity Cease Development or Drive Itself Into Truth?

[Angrboda]

I don't think there will be a unified reaction. Some will evolve, some will create a backlash against progress, and some will continue on with no changes. Same shit, different day.

Look at global warming. We have the technology, we can rebuild him, we can... er, wait. As I was saying, we have the knowledge of generally what needs to be done, and why it needs to be done. But human and political realities don't accommodate truth very readily. As a species, we're conservative; we keep on doing long after it's been profitable. That's actually a good thing, as it has contributed greatly to our success as a species. But it does have a darker side.

I think the next few hundred years, assuming we manage the near future without returning to a dark age, or even largely going extinct, these next few hundred years will see a watershed event, or wave of events. We will eventually figure out the human brain, and how the human brain's nature gives rise to many features of reality which we take for granted and manage with folk theories and philosophy. Imagine free will being an illusion, that morality is a side effect of biological evolution, the notion of the soul being nonsense, the notion that consciousness is no different from the behavior of a thermostat — how will people cope with such things when they transit from conjecture into hard scientific fact? I don't have the first clue, but I think the world is likely to change in ways that we can't anticipate if these things come to pass. And then, there will be those who carry on as if nothing has changed. And those who stick their fingers in their ears and shout, "La-la-la-la-la, I can't hear you!" Same shit, different day.

What do you build a creator god out of when mind is shown to be nothing more than an evolved clockwork mechanism? Can religion accommodate a god that is nothing but a machine?