50 years, 100, not more than 200... nanotechnology creates the ability of a microscopic robots to manipulate atoms and ...turn water into wine? ...cure blindness or disease instantenously? ...feed a multitude with mass replication (don't even need a loaf or 3 fish)? ...resurrect a man three days dead? Impossible? No. And WHEN it happens....what happens to God/Jesus' claims to fame?
LOL Jesus claimed that Truth is the savior. These wonderful uses of the Natural Laws that men can now image in their mind and develop the technological Age to our benefit is saving us.
The source for the carbon in wine (from water), as well as the complex mix of different compounds that are what makes wine different from weak vodka.
The fools who built the Titanic bragged about their technology, which they believed was so advanced that "Not even God can sink this ship!"
And its good thing we learned our lesson otherwise we might have eventually built a space shuttle or something....
I am addressing the OP, who thinks that technology can best God, and replace him. Pay attention to what is being said.
Hmm should I take the time to explain this to you or not???? 1.) Would you consider the things mentioned in the OP a tad bit different than building a giant ship? 2.) Would going from building a ship like the Titantic in 1909 to building a space shuttle in 1976 be an indication of our limits or potential? Because considering your reference I didn't want to scare you away by referencing something from this decade. 3.) Am I wasting my time? Maybe we should start by seeing if you actually understand the implications of the OP because I'll give you hint its not about replacing God.
Allow me to add or simply put this another way. Lets say we didn't hear from God until we were able to do the things mentioned above. Would we worship or believe in a God who could only do things we were already capable of doing?
That would be the god that makes stars that implode, tectonic plates that cause enormous damage when they shift, planets and asteroids that collide, and so on. Would that be the one?
How can two things that are intertwined replace one another? The old name for science was “natural philosophy”. In a sense philosophy is a science and it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t deal with empirical evidence because philosophy doesn’t make empirical claims.
Just checking.....do you know ANYTHING about nanotechnology? - - - Updated - - - Who said that quote? Name him.
You'd need a "new Bible"....with Jesus terraforming Jupiter and building "space-gates" to other star systems. When any man, in say 2090, can press a button on a panel on the side of a wall and a machine fed tap water can turn out a Dom Perignon facsimile.....the "beverage cart" at the wedding in Canaa isn't going to be very impressive. - - - Updated - - - BTW, suppose somebody said in the year....oh...1790... "In 200 years, you'll have a machine in every railway station that can 'bring a man back to life' from a heart attack"? Even Ben Franklin or Robert Fulton would find that dubious.
"Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?"----Isiah 60:8 Pancho Barnes: "See, some peckerwood's gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood's gotta land the son of a (*)(*)(*)(*)(*). And that "peckerwood" is called a "pilot"." "The Right Stuff" (1983)
