Is it possible that mankind evolves one day to a point that we can surpass "God" itself?

Question

Regardless of whether God exists or not.
Do you believe it's possible that mankind will evolve, socially, technologically, etc., to do everything we consider worthy of a "God"?
Is human potential to build, create and discover infinite?
Or is there a limit to what we can do as species?

Does our potential have boundaries? Or can we do *anything* with the proper time, evolution and technological progress?

As a german philosopher put it:
"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and
believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write
new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and
fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the
harvest."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche,
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

Is it possible?

The Slayor: I'm an agnostic. I don't think the question of whether there's a God or not can be answered through empirical evidence.

My question here, precisely, is..
is human capacity to create infite? Or is there a limit?

I think it's a much more interesting question than yours.

Answer 1

Too unnecessarily deep and I don't agree anyway so the answer is no

Answer 2

Once the logical mind reaches a 'dead end' this calculation capability also dissolves.
All these calculations are based on just comparisons. When the duality vanishes, then the need to compare also dissolves.
Mind (the logical aspect of it only), is the thing that can compare, or else, there is no comparison, evaluation, etc anywhere in the universe.
No need to retain any belief, etc to progress further. Just drop the mind for a while and experience life as a silent witness, and then the questions too will dissolve. It really requires great courage, a courage of a very different kind, not the courage to face material world.

Answer 3

the human race, as a sentient race, has....boundless potential...

once the rules of domination, and primitive neural prescepts are re-wired and we take in the interdimentions as we genetically evolve ourselves to improove our intellectual faculties--we can exponetially increase our abilities until we REACH, that of which you call God, but not surpass God...because God, in your conception is perfect, so we would just be joining this inherent wonderful force, instead of being a seperate entitiy, for there are no two true conceptions, but one truelly true conception.

I have utmost faith in the human race. There may be hard times such as population going down due to lack of arable land (weather + energy scarcity factors), lack of energy and therefore a stagnation of the economy into a dark age, which could all lead to dark eras of totalitarianism and nuclear fallout. The capacity for delusion and insanity of man is also great, and so are the many mistakes man makes time and time again. Also, one of the most important factors, is silent injustice...which man still seems to be blinded toward. Silent injustice...such as what has happened in lebanon, only breeds for the boiling point that starts the great confrontations. There is always a reason for a war, and this is injustice. Germany responded to the stagnation of its economy by the other European powers by rebelling, so does an unreasonable prudish law for alcohol lead to excessive drinking and hypocracy.(although, quite ironically, it actually might help socially by making people more creative in attaining their needs, and therefore retain their "hunger" which helps the economy..and at this point, is necessary for the evolution of the human intellect and science)..silent injustice, hypocritical as well as unreasonable double standards, and especially, when good men do nothing, are the greatest origins of human tension..the desire to dominate and the fear of being dominated (master/slave relationship), also plays a large role...This is natural and cannot be altered until a new social hardwiring paradigm can be found (the current one is effective and keeping the specie "hungry" and "on the game" which helps the overall morale of the specie and preserves the existance of the human race) to both preserve the existance of the human race, yet evolve the intellectual faculties...based on social dynamics...which could eventually come with human technology....However, despite these dark possibilties and downfalls, I still have great optimism in the human race and its ability to grow intellectually and sentiently.

Answer 4

"Regardless of whether God exists or not"? Are you kidding me? That is the best question to answer, instead of spending your time intellectually dilly-dallying with your "evolution" question.

Of course we cannot "evolve" beyond God. God is all infinite in power and intelligence. We are a finite construct in a finite universe. No matter how large a finite thing is, it is always smaller than something infinite.

I recommend that you spend a little more time on the main hurdle to your intellectual pursuit => Does God exist? If so, what are his attributes? What is my relationship to him?

Cheers,

Answer 5

Young Earth Creationism

Answer 6

Well - very interesting! I suppose that given enough time, humans may evolve to a stage where they could at least conceptualize what God is actually like - but judging by most of the answers we get here - that's a long way off!

Answer 7

Humans are not limitless, therefore they cannot be come godlike. To become a god we would have to overcome the obvioius limit of death. Could we pass on our information to evolve into a smarter being? We can't even keep our polar ice caps from melting.

Answer 8

Given an infinite amount of time, and assuming mankind survives. But maybe god is evolving at the same rate.

Answer 9

I think it's possible ... but not likely. At this point in our evolution we seem bent on discovering how many different ways we can end our existence. And if we don't manage this on our own, then a comet, a meteor, a super volcano, our sun going nova or the pole-switching thing is likely to do us in as a race.

Answer 10

More likely we will create 'god.' Over the past 25 years computers have increased in power a billion fold, if the same happens again over the next 25 years they will be telling us what to do, why, when and how.

Answer 11

Humanity is doomed to failure. We keep repeating the same mistakes over on over again. If this wasn't true we would no longer be fighting wars and we'd have space stations on Mars and maybe even beyond. We animals, no better and maybe even worse. we expoit beyond natures balance whereas animals don't.