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C. M. Millen's avatar

The human story has not changed. One only needs to read the Old Testament/Torah/Pentateuch to read exactly the same thing.

Instead of obeying and paying homage to God and following His commands for our own good, humans seek to create their own god and rules and thus become a god themselves.

Reading God’s response to Job is a good retort to AI. Start with Chapter 38:4-“Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me if you have understanding.”

Only a fool thinks one can be one’s own god.

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Jason McLelland's avatar

We know how the Earth was formed, and the other planets, and the Sun, and the Milky Way.

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Unsaint Finbar's avatar

Not really. We have internally consistent guesses that conform with presently available knowledge; and even there there are some large gaps. For example none of our ideas about how the moon formed correlate well with the evidence.

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Mike Eyre's avatar

To know something is to experience it. We trust scientific models which demonstrate the formation of these things, but none of us has seen it happen with our own eyes. Faith in science is not vastly different from religious faith; it's a choice of what you believe to be true. Believing all the energy in the universe originated from a singularity (a concept that is unraveling), seems considerably more far-fetched to me than a divine hand. Also, both can be true and neither can be true, but none of us will ever know.

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Jason McLelland's avatar

I don't know that it is unraveling, Mike. Particle collisions in accelerators leave visible trails. We know about processes, physical and mathematical, and can infer things from them without seeing them with our eyes, and observation has proven the truth of many theories and helped to correct others. On early modern maps, unknown regions of the world could only be described with the words, "Here be dragons". Today, some of us fill unkown regions of science with the words, "Here be gods (or God)". Your last sentence has some truth in it, though. The total truth is elusive and the pursuit of it seems set to go on for eternity. The more we know, the more we don't know.

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Mike Eyre's avatar

I was an astrophysics major for a time. I believed in the theory of the Big Bang because there was no better alternative. But as I read now various scientific thinkers online are getting more expressly uncomfortable with it, and that's healthy. Where it started to unravel for me was the tension between what we can know and what we can't: the unknowable beyond. But I've come to believe that there is no beyond, and Relativity supports that thinking. There's only one universe and it has always existed and it will always exist. Time is flexible and it stretches infinitely, or almost, but enough so I don't need to constantly wonder about "before" and "after" and I can brush of the "multiverse" as fiction.

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C. M. Millen's avatar

We do to a point.....

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Carter Crain's avatar

Part of the rest of the story is that we are all fools

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Anthony's avatar

The author reminded me of Jesus saying, "sell your possessions, give it all to the poor, leave your job and family and come follow me." The idea of being separate and distinct from cultural, economic or political forces; the true spiritual life.

The life of holy purity will not change with the advent of Internet, but few people can choose that life.

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