Will humans become Gods?

[alterego]

Humans won’t become Gods, they will become Human~!

We spend so much time now doing things that will be done completely by technology in just the next 50 to 100 years.

When we don’t have to worry about things like agriculture or manual labor and the like because we have nice robots doing it all for us I for one am not going to mindlessly continue my job here trying to earn a living. Sounds like a good time to take the family, the family robot, and head out to the forest and just enjoy being alive!

The Celestine Prophecy(book) gives a nice description of this, albeit far fetched.

I do hope that before we conquer stars we can at least conquer Earth and turn her back into what she was when we found her. Namely clean. With lots of trees and stuff

[Gadfly]

I’m sorry that you have such a poor view of religion and fail to see that there are plenty of clear thinking, rational people who also happen to hold a religious belief and have no problem with things like inoculations and heart transplants, and think that it’s ridiculous to argue against them in the name of God.

Well, theists in any faith have to suspend “rational” thought to some extent, because by definition they are believing in things which cannot be proven by logical argument.

[Enderw24]

*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan *
**What humans eventually become is dead. **

Wow…Nietzsche was right!

[shijinn]

Originally posted by ** Joel **
… well of course if it was proven that there is no diety/dieties of any kind I would become an athiest and see religious pursuit as a wast of time, although I would still adhear to basic Judeo/Christian values. …

religion is faith in something that isn’t there, how can it be proven?

[shijinn]

pause

wish i can edit ''isn’t there" to “can’t be proven”.

[juan2003]

*Originally posted by Rooves *
**Yes but, can we really sustain a planet full of people who won’t die? There is such a thing as meddling with nature too much (not to defend religion). **

My point is not that religion is always wrong, but rather that it gives overly simplistic answers. We need to think and weigh the positives and negatives to determine what is appropriate in a particular situation.

Let’s use immortality as an example. Who has the right to life extension? How long does a person have the right to live? Can a person choose to die early (suicide)? At what point do you deny a dying person a life extension? Should you prevent a person from dying a natural death? Is anyone obligated to have a life extension? What criterion determines whether one’s life is worth extending? Is a life extension considered to be disease treatment, preventative therapy, or an elective procedure? Should health insurance pay for it? Can life insurance be denied if you don’t get it?

[Vriggs]

*Originally posted by Gadfly *
**Well, theists in any faith have to suspend “rational” thought to some extent, because by definition they are believing in things which cannot be proven by logical argument. **

Hate to be the one to point this out Gadfly, but to not believe in God also requires belief in something that cannot be proven - the non-existance of God.

[juan2003]

*Originally posted by Joel *
**juan2003 you’re focusing on radicals and fundamentalists. I’m sorry that you have such a poor view of religion and fail to see that there are plenty of clear thinking, rational people who also happen to hold a religious belief and have no problem with things like inoculations and heart transplants, and think that it’s ridiculous to argue against them in the name of God. **

You missed the point of the quote. Religion is anti-progress. Today mainstream religious people are against modern scientific breakthroughs like cloning and stem cell research. One day, those technologies will lead to huge advances in the medical field, but that day will be many years later thanks to religion.

[chorpler]

*Originally posted by Vriggs *
**Hate to be the one to point this out Gadfly, but to not believe in God also requires belief in something that cannot be proven - the non-existance of God. **

I don’t know … does not believing in God necessarily mean you believe in not-God? I thought that’s why a lot of people people call themselves agnostics instead of atheists – because they don’t believe in either the existence or non-existence of God.