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In reply to the discussion: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Godhood.. [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)17. But that technology is due to some very highly evolved intelligence.
Should something that has developed a even higher degree of intelligence appear, we might not be top of the food chain any longer.
Eye glasses have been one of the biggest manmade adaptations imagined. Many, many people would not have survived without technology.
I just feel pretty certain that while we are high on this earth's ladder, we are really, really primitive in the bigger scheme of things.
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Fumesucker
Feb 2015
OP
I wrongly attributed TLQ to Clarke in the OP and then edited when it was pointed out to me..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#22
In Childhood's End some idiot tried to fire a nuke at the alien guardians, and promptly disappeared.
leveymg
Feb 2015
#7
I think this feeds into an evolutionary defense mechanism; our predisposition to faith.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2015
#9
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