What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans?

[Jenny A]

The problems with this analogy are myriad.

1) Children of any species will generally grow up into something resembling their parents. You and I will not grow up to be omnipotent beings.

Humans can create life. Craig Venter's mycoplasma laboratorium is an example of it. Human can create evolutionary systems....you can find numerous examples of simulated evolution on the internet. Human's create realities in which they are pretty much omnipotent. World of Warcraft is one such reality....SecondLife is another. Humans can create intellects....IBM's Watson is an example of a rudimentary intellect.

Now one day, humans will create intellects, put them in a reality of their own design, and watch them interact and evolve. We might even interfere in their world....just to fuck with them. In a very real sense humans are growing up to be gods.

I rather like that, though I don't think it's what Dritch meant. Nor do I think it's what Genesis meant. Man had no such power in the bronze age though people have always been storytellers and artists so you could say we were always god like, always creating.

However, people who behave too much like gods tend to get slapped down in mythology, Biblical or otherwise: Babel, Athena and the Spider, Icarus. Pride goeth before a fall and those who try to go it without god fail. Those who god chooses win. And there's nothing about the Bible that encourages technology. Nor does it really encourage that kind of alternate reality--no graven images and all that.

But, I suppose if you think of humankind through out the ages as a single growing child, it kinda works. Perhaps if we are becoming more like god in the developed world, that's why the developed world is becoming more secular. That's what grown-up children do, they move out of the house and start their own families.