Is ET God?
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You know how we have "separation of church and state" (at least in the US)? Well, there should also be a "separation of church and science". What a load of faulty reasoning that article is. Just confirms why I killed my SciAm subscription 20 years ago. Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
Thats so hypocritical I'm not even going to argue with that here. :)
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
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Every so often on the net you find a real gem. This article is from the 'Scientific American' site (oxymoron?). "Shermer's Last Law". "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" Clickety [^] Extract: God is typically described by Western religions as omniscient and omnipotent. Because we are far from possessing these traits, how can we possibly distinguish a God who has them absolutely from an ETI who merely has them copiously relative to us? We can't. But if God were only relatively more knowing and powerful than we are, then by definition the deity would be an ETI!
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
Jonny Newman wrote: "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" This sounds an awful lot like this quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Userfriendly, 2003/06/07 -
Jonny Newman wrote: "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" This sounds an awful lot like this quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Userfriendly, 2003/06/07Bruce Duncan wrote: Arthur C. Clarke Ah Hah!!! I knew I'd heard it somewhere before! --Colin Mackay--
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Every so often on the net you find a real gem. This article is from the 'Scientific American' site (oxymoron?). "Shermer's Last Law". "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" Clickety [^] Extract: God is typically described by Western religions as omniscient and omnipotent. Because we are far from possessing these traits, how can we possibly distinguish a God who has them absolutely from an ETI who merely has them copiously relative to us? We can't. But if God were only relatively more knowing and powerful than we are, then by definition the deity would be an ETI!
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
But if God were only relatively more knowing and powerful than we are, then by definition the deity would be an ETI! By definition God is an ETI regardless of relative knowledge.:~ If God is our Creator, then it would be quite difficult for God to have been from this Earth, and so would have to be an ETI. Jonny Newman wrote: "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" Brilliant :rolleyes: BW CP Member Homepages
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Jonny Newman wrote: "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" This sounds an awful lot like this quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Searching the web without Google is like straining sewage with your teeth.
Userfriendly, 2003/06/07 -
Every so often on the net you find a real gem. This article is from the 'Scientific American' site (oxymoron?). "Shermer's Last Law". "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God" Clickety [^] Extract: God is typically described by Western religions as omniscient and omnipotent. Because we are far from possessing these traits, how can we possibly distinguish a God who has them absolutely from an ETI who merely has them copiously relative to us? We can't. But if God were only relatively more knowing and powerful than we are, then by definition the deity would be an ETI!
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
You've obviously never seen the movie or series Stargate, in which aliens are the models for almost every popular ancient diety, including some Asian dieties. It's a very good series and is well written with the exception of a few episode here and there. I used to think if the stories of Jesus happened the way they did, then he would have to have been a human/alien hybrid project.
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Doh! Busted! I didn't actually read the article... :-O
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Userfriendly, 2003/06/07 -
You've obviously never seen the movie or series Stargate, in which aliens are the models for almost every popular ancient diety, including some Asian dieties. It's a very good series and is well written with the exception of a few episode here and there. I used to think if the stories of Jesus happened the way they did, then he would have to have been a human/alien hybrid project.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
I've actually seen Stargate the movie at least 10 times, and watched every single episode of SG1. I also made a post here a few months back about how they used some C# code in a season 7 episode. So ;P
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
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Well in the movie, the general theme would indicate the ET was Jesus, he arrives, he's persecuted, he dies, he's ressurected, he leaves but tells us he'll always be with us.... oops, you're talking factual ET's rather then the movie. Sorry ;-) Michael Look at what's happened to me-, I can't believe it myself. Suddenly I'm up on top of the world, It should've been somebody else. - The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Michael P Butler wrote: Well in the movie, the general theme would indicate the ET was Jesus, he arrives, he's persecuted, he dies, he's ressurected, he leaves but tells us he'll always be with us.... If he didn't shave off his beard for the movie he would be indistinguishable from all those pictures hanging around churches. Michael Martin Australia "I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy." - Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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I've actually seen Stargate the movie at least 10 times, and watched every single episode of SG1. I also made a post here a few months back about how they used some C# code in a season 7 episode. So ;P
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
Well, if you were such a fan of it, then I would've thought you'd mention something about it with a thread like this.
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