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cbayer

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10. One of the reasons I have never fully rejected the belief in god and

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 05:19 PM

Feb 2015

remained agnostic is because I believe that there is other intelligent life and that some of it is most likely much more highly evolved than we are.

It is possible that that is god.

Perhaps we are just somethings ant farm. Who knows?

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Godhood.. [View all] Fumesucker Feb 2015 OP

"The Last Question" was an Asimov story Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #1

Oops.. You're right.. Brain fart.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #2

wiki says: Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #3

See post #2 Fumesucker Feb 2015 #5

Not my thought at all Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #21

I wrongly attributed TLQ to Clarke in the OP and then edited when it was pointed out to me.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #22

The word "sufficiently" is key here. trotsky Feb 2015 #4

I hear they have toasters now bvf Feb 2015 #6

To Bronze age goat herders iron chariots were sufficiently advanced Lordquinton Feb 2015 #15

This of course raises the question skepticscott Feb 2015 #20

Sci-Fi was full of characters with "god-like" powers Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #32

And don't forget Q! trotsky Feb 2015 #38

In Childhood's End some idiot tried to fire a nuke at the alien guardians, and promptly disappeared. leveymg Feb 2015 #7

I think Clarke's law is no longer valid edhopper Feb 2015 #8

You vastly overestimate the intelligence Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #33

As I said edhopper Feb 2015 #34

I think this feeds into an evolutionary defense mechanism; our predisposition to faith. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #9

Another thing we homo sapiens do is... AlbertCat Feb 2015 #30

One of the reasons I have never fully rejected the belief in god and cbayer Feb 2015 #10

I think I've mentioned before that I'm an agnostic who is also an atheist Fumesucker Feb 2015 #11

I was not clear. I do not think something has evolved further from us. cbayer Feb 2015 #12

What do you mean by "further"? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #13

You and your null statements. cbayer Feb 2015 #14

It's only technology that puts us at the top of the food chain.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #16

But that technology is due to some very highly evolved intelligence. cbayer Feb 2015 #17

Only if their environment is far more harsh than our own.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #18

Harsh? How about just different? cbayer Feb 2015 #19

You have no idea what I think may be possible in terms of life.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #23

I am only responding to what you wrote. cbayer Feb 2015 #24

He wrote quite a bit of stuff that's not in that subgenre, I don't read fantasy either any more Fumesucker Feb 2015 #25

I read the beginning of it, but it didn't grab me. cbayer Feb 2015 #26

I'm kind of limited to what I can find online for free and at the library.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #27

I see that Childhood's End is in a downloadable format. cbayer Feb 2015 #28

Neither may be your cup of Earl Grey Fumesucker Feb 2015 #29

Of course... AlbertCat Feb 2015 #31

shhh, don't spoil the fun. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #37

Sure is entertaining, isn't it? Act_of_Reparation Feb 2015 #43

And I did not say they were. There are other ways to think of cbayer Feb 2015 #39

It's beyond you AlbertCat Feb 2015 #40

I was only repeating what you said to make a point. cbayer Feb 2015 #41

You mean magic? Iggo Feb 2015 #35

Show someone from a thousand years ago the Tsar Bomba Fumesucker Feb 2015 #36

Don't you think edhopper Feb 2015 #42

How about a technology that can make a star go nova? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #45

That would be very advanced technology edhopper Feb 2015 #46

You don't have to go back 1000 years for that. stone space Feb 2015 #44