(June 6, 2013 at 12:14 pm)Tonus Wrote:(June 6, 2013 at 4:35 am)apophenia Wrote: 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?
I wonder about that. We created gods long ago and put them on paper, where they couldn't interact with us outside of our own imagination. I think that in the future we will create gods and load them into computer memory, where they will be able to interact with us and seem more real. Unless we've evolved away this crippling need to know-the-how-and-why-about-everything-right-here-and-right-now, I would expect that we will quickly blur the lines and find god in the machines.
If this happens I wonder if christianity's emergency plan is to recede to worshipping Skynet.
