Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION] another problem with religion...

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > Just accept that if there is a God then obviously there is a God and 
> > if not there is nothing to stop someone, probably me, from becoming God.
> I think the laws of physics will stop you.
Nothing is impossible - you just have to learn the rules well enough to 
get around them. Every time people think something can't be done then 
someone else goes and does it eventually. Besides God is such a loose 
term that to qualify isn't that hard I think. To people a even 200 years 
ago your average person today would seem to have God-like powers. 
Turning lights on and off with the clap of a hand, communicating words, 
pictures, video, and more instantly clear across the world, cooking food 
instantly, etc. Technology accelerates it's own growth as it grows so 
who knows where it'll be in 200 years more and certainly not in 2000 
years. Genetics, nanotech, faster than light communication, and much 
more will probably be common place technologies well within even the 200 
year mark so 2000 years from now is just unimaginable. I can see 
technology magnifying our human traits such as enjoying communication 
and creativity and satisfying our basic curiosity. I'd expect whatever 
we see in the future to continue to feed those human needs and because 
of that I expect to see people able to communicate much easier and 
faster than they do now, have easier ways to create and new ways to 
study the world around us and process the data from those observations. 
To me that says we'll be thinking faster and better as a collective mind 
as well as as individuals.

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