Re: Was, Re: The theology of number, (Now) The Universe Learns (not released on April 1st)

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Sure, I agree, because all the oldies did the best they could, and like us, often fail big time. They had trouble feeding the kids for most of human development.

Having said that, I still look for rational technical answers for even some spiritual goals, and longings. So some of the thinkers I have learned about have scientific philosophical interests, computing, math, etc. Tipler, Leslie, Moravec, Prisco, and lately, Alexey Turchin. Whatever works best for ourselves, and our species.

On Monday, June 14, 2021 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

On 6/14/2021 8:05 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
> New religions I hold we do not need. It's better to use science to
> upgrade them. If the universe does indeed learn as proposed by the
> physicist, then that's a good thing. Skeptic Michael Shermer
> paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke, said: A sufficiently advanced alien
> intelligence is indistinguishable from God."

Cruel, egocentric, prone to smiting, megalomanical,...maybe.  I hope we
don't run into one (or become one).

Brent
You cannot read part of the Bible allegorically and the rest of it
literally; if you believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, his crucifixion
and resurrection, and the depiction of the Great Judgment at the end
times you must also believe that God is sadistic, brutal, vengeful,
callow, cruel and savage - that God slaughters.
    --- Bill Moyers, address 9/9/05 Union Theological Seminary in New
York,

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