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A High Tech Tower of Babel – More False Gods in the Making
There’s a growing movement in the world today called Transhumanism that’s comparable to the Bible’s Tower of Babel found in the book of Genesis and comparable to the false god and idol creating practices of the ancient Israelite’s and pagans in the Bible’s Old Testament. Transhumanists believe humans will merge with computing machines by 2045 and transcend the limits of human biology. As a result of this merger, the world’s problems will be solved, immortality will be achieved, and a friendly, Artificially Intelligent (AI) god or gods will be created capable of leading us into all knowledge we will ever need to know.
Transhumanists base their predictions on the exponential growth of computing power which more than doubles every year. History clearly shows this upward growth is picking up speed. At a certain point, computing power and technological growth will explode into what’s called the singularity where every aspect of human life will be irreversibly transformed for good or, possibly, for evil, as some warn.
What the world and life will be like in the singularity, nobody can really say with certainty the experts readily admit. They do admit, however, that there are grave risks, such as more deadly wars, and, that humans as known today will likely become extinct as humanity evolves into the new man/machine hybrid. There’s even the risk that a malevolent godlike super-being could evolve and hasten the demise of all inferior mankind that is not technologically enhanced.
Last year, Yuval Noah Harari was on 60 Minutes warning that humans will be surpassed by Artificial Intelligence and its cyborg like creations and will then die out in evolutionary fashion. Supposedly, AI and cyborgs will evolve into the dominant species on earth due to their superior intelligence and their technologically and genetically enhanced bodies and brains. The You Tube video “Singularity Timeline | Artificial Intelligence + AGI + ASI (2023 - 2100¹⁰⁰)” gives a timeline of when some atheists believe artificial super intelligence (ASI) will become a god and flesh and blood humans will become extinct that is consistent with the evolutionary timeline suggested by Harari in his book as stated in the 60 Minutes video below.
There’s a growing movement in the world today called Transhumanism that’s comparable to the Bible’s Tower of Babel found in the book of Genesis and comparable to the false god and idol creating practices of the ancient Israelite’s and pagans in the Bible’s Old Testament. Transhumanists believe humans will merge with computing machines by 2045 and transcend the limits of human biology. As a result of this merger, the world’s problems will be solved, immortality will be achieved, and a friendly, Artificially Intelligent (AI) god or gods will be created capable of leading us into all knowledge we will ever need to know.
Transhumanists base their predictions on the exponential growth of computing power which more than doubles every year. History clearly shows this upward growth is picking up speed. At a certain point, computing power and technological growth will explode into what’s called the singularity where every aspect of human life will be irreversibly transformed for good or, possibly, for evil, as some warn.
What the world and life will be like in the singularity, nobody can really say with certainty the experts readily admit. They do admit, however, that there are grave risks, such as more deadly wars, and, that humans as known today will likely become extinct as humanity evolves into the new man/machine hybrid. There’s even the risk that a malevolent godlike super-being could evolve and hasten the demise of all inferior mankind that is not technologically enhanced.
Last year, Yuval Noah Harari was on 60 Minutes warning that humans will be surpassed by Artificial Intelligence and its cyborg like creations and will then die out in evolutionary fashion. Supposedly, AI and cyborgs will evolve into the dominant species on earth due to their superior intelligence and their technologically and genetically enhanced bodies and brains. The You Tube video “Singularity Timeline | Artificial Intelligence + AGI + ASI (2023 - 2100¹⁰⁰)” gives a timeline of when some atheists believe artificial super intelligence (ASI) will become a god and flesh and blood humans will become extinct that is consistent with the evolutionary timeline suggested by Harari in his book as stated in the 60 Minutes video below.
Will man be able to solve the world’s problems and attain immortality through a technology he has created without the assistance of the true God who created man? The Bible clearly says no. Most everybody, who has read the Bible, remembers the Tower of Babel. There God was forced to scatter and confuse the language of the people because their common language and technical skills had become so great that nothing they planned to do would be impossible for them. This is certainly an apt description of what the scientific and technological elite of today are doing. Utilizing a common scientific language, they are steadily accumulating vast amounts of technical knowledge and disseminating it via the World Wide Web and Internet.
Many of the Transhumanists are making great names for themselves as well as large fortunes pushing their ideas and philosophy unto the unsuspecting masses. Likewise, the Tower of Babel’s builders sought to make great names for themselves as well as the large fortunes that follow such endeavors. Transhumanists are also trying to reach their version of heaven the same as those early Babylonians. (fn1)
Most Transhumanists are atheists. When asked if God exists, many Transhumanists will answer not yet. In other words, a god or gods are being created through the Artificial Intelligence and will arise during the singularity they prophesy. This is comparable to the false god and idol creating warned against by the true God throughout the Bible. This will be the ultimate in false gods and idols man has ever built-in history if they succeed.
Transhumanists see the religions of the world – other than their own Transhumanist religion – as irrational and dangerous and as hindering scientific advancement. They hope new techno-therapies will emerge so these “God delusions” as they call them can be erased or deleted from human consciousness. These new techno-therapies will more than likely become a brand-new tool in psychiatry’s war chest against so-called “mental illness” and likely to cause greater harm to humans than all the past techniques they’ve used that have failed. Confinement under cruel and unusual conditions in psychiatric prisons, lobotomies, electroshock, and highly addictive and toxic psychotropic drugs have all caused immeasurable damage to humans. The new techno-therapies will be the ultimate in mind control and the policing of human behavior.
But the big question still remains. Can man attain the spiritual knowledge necessary to utilize his inventions practically and safely before it’s too late? Instead of transcending our God created bodies and brains, creating false gods that will do us great harm, and succumbing to a system that sounds like the beast power out of the book of Revelation, could man possibly harness computing power to increase a right knowledge and practice of God’s word and restore a Garden of Eden like existence to the world where peace and harmony reigns supreme?
Footnotes
1) Is the space program also just another phase of a high tech Tower of Babel? I would have to answer yes, and there’s the issue of does the God of the Bible want us in outer space where He has His home? Psalm 11:4; 103:19; Hebrews 8:1; Matthew 5:34. From my reading of the Scriptures, the answer is no. In Jeremiah 31:37, God says He will reject the descendants of Israel if the heavens can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out. To measure the heavens requires space travel and powerful quantum computers necessary to map such a vast area.
We see in the Tower of Babel where God intentionally frustrated man’s efforts to reach the heavens and make a great name for himself. Genesis 11:1-9. The impression I get from reading the Scriptures is that God does not want man to have great technological powers including immortality until we are fully obedient to Him, His laws, and Jesus Christ’s teachings. We see this in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:22-24 after the fall of man when God created a barrier to attaining immortality. I assume this is because man would become too destructive to himself and to others and to God’s creation.
Many of the Transhumanists are making great names for themselves as well as large fortunes pushing their ideas and philosophy unto the unsuspecting masses. Likewise, the Tower of Babel’s builders sought to make great names for themselves as well as the large fortunes that follow such endeavors. Transhumanists are also trying to reach their version of heaven the same as those early Babylonians. (fn1)
Most Transhumanists are atheists. When asked if God exists, many Transhumanists will answer not yet. In other words, a god or gods are being created through the Artificial Intelligence and will arise during the singularity they prophesy. This is comparable to the false god and idol creating warned against by the true God throughout the Bible. This will be the ultimate in false gods and idols man has ever built-in history if they succeed.
Transhumanists see the religions of the world – other than their own Transhumanist religion – as irrational and dangerous and as hindering scientific advancement. They hope new techno-therapies will emerge so these “God delusions” as they call them can be erased or deleted from human consciousness. These new techno-therapies will more than likely become a brand-new tool in psychiatry’s war chest against so-called “mental illness” and likely to cause greater harm to humans than all the past techniques they’ve used that have failed. Confinement under cruel and unusual conditions in psychiatric prisons, lobotomies, electroshock, and highly addictive and toxic psychotropic drugs have all caused immeasurable damage to humans. The new techno-therapies will be the ultimate in mind control and the policing of human behavior.
But the big question still remains. Can man attain the spiritual knowledge necessary to utilize his inventions practically and safely before it’s too late? Instead of transcending our God created bodies and brains, creating false gods that will do us great harm, and succumbing to a system that sounds like the beast power out of the book of Revelation, could man possibly harness computing power to increase a right knowledge and practice of God’s word and restore a Garden of Eden like existence to the world where peace and harmony reigns supreme?
Footnotes
1) Is the space program also just another phase of a high tech Tower of Babel? I would have to answer yes, and there’s the issue of does the God of the Bible want us in outer space where He has His home? Psalm 11:4; 103:19; Hebrews 8:1; Matthew 5:34. From my reading of the Scriptures, the answer is no. In Jeremiah 31:37, God says He will reject the descendants of Israel if the heavens can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out. To measure the heavens requires space travel and powerful quantum computers necessary to map such a vast area.
We see in the Tower of Babel where God intentionally frustrated man’s efforts to reach the heavens and make a great name for himself. Genesis 11:1-9. The impression I get from reading the Scriptures is that God does not want man to have great technological powers including immortality until we are fully obedient to Him, His laws, and Jesus Christ’s teachings. We see this in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:22-24 after the fall of man when God created a barrier to attaining immortality. I assume this is because man would become too destructive to himself and to others and to God’s creation.
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal: We're fast approaching the moment when humans and machines merge. Welcome to the Singularity movement. This article appears in the February 10th, 2011 Time magazine
Transcendent Man Wows At Tribeca Film Festival Premier, at http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/29/transcendent-man-wows-at-tribeca-film-festival-premier/
What is The Babel Singularity? https://www.babylonsingularity.com/the-crisis
The Tower of Babel Project: how human beings must prepare for the approaching Singularity -We must prepare before limitless power corrupts us.
https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/the-tower-of-babel-project-how-human-beings-must-prepare-for-the-approaching-singularity-36355b908aed
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
- Matthew 24:21-24
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Transcendent Man Wows At Tribeca Film Festival Premier, at http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/29/transcendent-man-wows-at-tribeca-film-festival-premier/
What is The Babel Singularity? https://www.babylonsingularity.com/the-crisis
The Tower of Babel Project: how human beings must prepare for the approaching Singularity -We must prepare before limitless power corrupts us.
https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/the-tower-of-babel-project-how-human-beings-must-prepare-for-the-approaching-singularity-36355b908aed
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
- Matthew 24:21-24
Copyright © 2016-2022 Better Path. All Rights Reserved.