God Made Better? How the Quest for Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Shapes Postdigital Divinitydoi:10.1007/978-3-031-09405-7_13This chapter makes the case for a historically grounded view of the postdigital conception of divinity that culminates in an understanding of divinity as realisable ...
In six days God makes everything perfect; but in just one day man and woman spoil it all. No wonder God gets angry and exasperated. Over and over he comes to the aid of his favorite creation, over and over they let him down and turn their backs on him. This is the story that run...
How were Humans made I think most of the myths use this motif because most of the people could not think of any other way of humans coming to be. But, how did it get to every other culture that had made the humans out of genetic material? Genetic material is usually stuff like clay...
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
How did the universe begin? According to the Boshongo people of central Africa, before us there was only darkness, water and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach ache, vomited up the Sun. The Sun evaporated some of the water, leaving land. Still in discomfort, ...
did prayer build our relationship and give us a chance to talk to God together, it also led to some great conversations. For instance, when Anna hesitated to pray for a woman she did not know well, who had lost her father, we had a great talk on praying with empathy. We discussed ...
Today, of course, there is just one human species alive. How did weHomo sapiensHomo sapiensbecome so successful and others did not? Harari believes it was our unique cognitive abilities that made the difference. About 70,000 years ago, underwent a “cognitive revolution,” Harari writes, whic...
He bred mice with a gene mutation that interferes with another class of key signaling proteins, called melanocortins. Mice with this mutation more closely resembled obese humans than did mice with leptin mutations: their obesity set in relatively late, and they had diabetes-causing levels of insul...
” the question should be “What do you believe God to be?” One might say “An opiate of the masses” as did Karl Marx, still the question provides a more open possibility to explore the nature of the Infinite. God is the unifying and organizing Principle of the universe. God is One...
The “gods” mentioned in the Old Testament, like Asherah or Baal, did not exist, just as much as the man-made gods of today do not exist, such as Allah or the gods of the Mormons. Only the Lord God, who exists as the Trinity, in the person of the Father, Jesus Christ, and ...