Death Match 2012... The God we Make VS the God we Find... Who wins?

) October 21st, 2009

Is technology more likely to see us making God or finding one?

I’m not the first to consider a Tech Tower of Babel. Humanity is on the brink of total dependency on Tech. Will we ever worship it as a God of sorts?

Perhaps you’d prefer technology to reveal God instead of make one. Are new scientific discoveries uncovering the real God of all existence?

Do humans have an innate need for some kind of God, whether we make one or find one? Are Gods only as good as the ones we create?

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I think worship of something requires that the object be held as sacred, and I don’t think we see computers as sacred in the same way that a Hindu would consider a cow to be sacred, we don’t see them in the same way a Christian sees the cross, and we hardly feel the exaltation a Muslim must feel upon stepping into Mecca when we walk into Best Buy.

According to Einstein, the highest form of religious experience is what he calls “Cosmic Religious Feeling”, whereby “the individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought”. He saw the Universe and God as the same thing, and in that sense science is indeed revealing the God of All Existence.

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