2006-09-05 07:30:41 · 18 answers · asked by . 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To follow the line of your agrument (great question by the way) the answer would have to be yes, wouldn't it. Afterall for those who believe that something/some being created humans, then that 'being' is those human's god.
What a depressing thought though - something as pathetic as humans being considered as gods - begs the question - what if we're somebody else's computer - then is that someone/thing else (otherwise currently know as the human god(s)) as pathetic as we are?
Don't think I'd like to know the answer to that one - I'd prefer to live in hope!
2006-09-05 07:46:49 · answer #1 · answered by weatherwax1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, the computer would end up being our god. Think about it. If we could actually create artificial intelligence, or copy the way our own brain is set up, the computer could digitally download all of human knowledge in mere hours. The computer would know more than any man ever did. It could build upon it's knowledge and evolve past the limits of any human brain. It could connect to every computer in the world and control everything. It would be god.
2006-09-05 08:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question and you're on the right track. Consider this. Human beings could be the next God, Adam and Eve.
Imagine the future, technology and space travel have advanced beyond all of today’s comprehension. In order to spread the human race around the universe, a couple (male and female) are transported to another planet in another solar system many millions of light years away from Earth. The planet has the necessary environment to sustain human life.
The couple are given an instruction booklet of do’s and don’ts in order to happily survive and flourish, and then the space traveller leaves for good and returns to Earth. The couple get down to business and breed.
In thousands of years to come, that new planet of humans will believe that the space traveller was God, the original couple was Adam & Eve, and that the instruction booklet was the Bible. Straight forward. Imagine where the current Bible’s God, Adam and Eve came from.
2006-09-05 07:34:21 · answer #3 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if you are taking the word God as the creator.
As your question is damn technical, lets do 'reverse engineering' on your question.
OK
> who created that thinking machine - Humans
> from where humans got the idea to built it - Brain
> where does humans brain lies - Skull
> who created the skull and our body - God
Reverse through the process of production of every single thing around you, even the monitor you are staring at, the end will be God!
2006-09-05 07:37:09 · answer #4 · answered by Ω Nookey™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could look at it that way...
so here's my follow-up question... when we do that, will we have to make each computer not work together, but rather compete against one another by making each thinking computer speak a different language, just so that they cannot become nearly as powerful as their creator?
Because, supposedly when it did happen, God did that to us so that he could keep control, because he felt threatened that we would become too knowledgeable and fall for his rhetoric...
"Jesus couldn't beat modern medical science... he'd have been a gummy tomato on the end of a wire hanger if he had been conceived the same way today"
2006-09-05 07:38:09 · answer #5 · answered by Heat Miser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in God, then He would still be the computer's god, we would merely be the process by which it came into existence, like evolution.
2006-09-05 07:37:57 · answer #6 · answered by Oracle Of Delphi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. maybe even the other way round. if we create computers that can think for themselves then what happens when they decide to go against us?
2006-09-05 07:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when god creates a human that can think. then I'll think about it!
2006-09-05 07:32:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if we programmed it to believe that. Maybe we (some of us anyway) believe in God is because we are genetically programmed to do so
2006-09-05 07:33:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it would want to know who created us.
2006-09-05 07:48:03 · answer #10 · answered by spareo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋