Re: Christian evangelicals colliding with the singularity...

From: James Swayze (swayzej@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 20:45:15 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 08:16 PM 5/03/00 -0800, James wrote:
>
> >I headed off the issue of "playing god". I said, (paraphrasing myself as it's
> >been a while) "Some people would accuse me of 'playing god' but I
> disagree. To
> >play god, I would have to call energy into existence from nothing and form
> that
> >into matter. I'd have to wait a few billion years for that to become life.
> I'd
> >have to wait a few more billion years for that life to become human beings.
> >Frankly, I don't have time to 'Play God', I'd rather just use what's already
> >here."
>
> That's pleasingly sarcastic, under the guise of compliance. A pal of mine
> is more direct and confronting:

Touche' I've been unmasked! ;)

James

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"Quod de futuris non est determinata omnino veritas"
			    NOSTRADAMUS 15TH Century


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