Science & Technology vs. Religion

An exploration of how the emerging technologies of the next few decades will negatively impact religion.

WARNING: Contains robotic nudity (but even that I had to cover up to calm the prude police).

SOURCES and FURTHER INFORMATION:

LINKS:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns (the law of accelerating returns)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change (the law of accelerating returns)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law (Moore's Law)
http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020-2029.htm (future timeline)
http://www.singularity.com/qanda.html (the technological singularity)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9CFs6x-MQ (documentary "The Technocalyps"—this is the first of 18 videos)
http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage&section=dollgallery (sex dolls—note: sexual content)
http://www.truecompanion.com/shop/pages/FAQ.html (sex dolls—note: sexual content)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/ (sex, marriage and robots)
http://www.livescience.com/technology/090330-commentary-sex-robots.html (sex and robots)
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/sex_with_robots.html (theist concerns about sexbots)
http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/course/projects/final-4/ (Human Genome Project halfway through)
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/50yr/press4_2003.s... (Human Genome Project completed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_nanotechnology (nanotechnology)
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology/ten_things_you_should_know_1.php (nanotechnology)
http://www.thenanoage.com/ (nanotechnology)
http://www.america.gov/st/business-english/2008/September/20080924165734acnir... (government spending on nanotechnology)
http://www.nanolawreport.com/2009/07/articles/private-spending-on-nano-exceed... (private spending on nanotechnology)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090115/ (advanced nanotechnology arrival)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence (religion and intelligence)
http://www.scienceclarified.com/scitech/Virtual-Reality/index.html (virtual reality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLiYg97iZ_o (noelplum99's "The Greatest Argument For God in the World...... Ever!!!")
http://advancingtechnologies.blogspot.com/ (my blog on technological advances toward advanced nanotech and the singularity)

BOOKS:
"Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology" by K. Eric Drexler (available free online at http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=503)
"The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil
"The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil

Category:

Education

Tags:

• science
• technology
• future
• nanotechnology
• singularity
• robot
• sexbot
• artificial
• intelligence
• virtual
• world
• transhuman
• transhumanism
• moore's
• law
• immortality
• kurzweil
• drexler
• of
• accelerating
• returns
• theology
• religion
• church
• creationism
• evolution
• bible
• god
• christian
• christianity

[max10wonderboy]

What would be the cost of sex bots?

[Underlings]

@max10wonderboy It's hard to say, but as with cell phones, the initial models will be ridiculously expensive--possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars--but they'll get less expensive, more reliable, more capable and more accessible as time goes on. So perhaps a few years after they're made available, the price will drop to $15,000 in today's dollars. Roughly car prices, with deluxe or more capable models costing more.

[HonestTechnoAtheist]

@Underlings Hey underarms, what's the most recent status on robobitches?

[garfrain]

@max10wonderboy great question, shat myself

[TomitaRaelian]

@Underlings In 20 years from now, no more money, brothers:)

[aynradd]

|2ight On !✿!

A World |2evolution Now

[TheReliquarian]

Fuck yeah jet packs and flying cars!

That is all.

[Underlings]

@max10wonderboy Sure, that's a possibility...have nanobots replace neurons with machine equivalents as they would be replaced naturally. But it would take a lot longer to develop that technology. And to me it only illustrates how it's the pattern that matters, not the substrate. The brain is constantly changing, being replaced, and we are not the same person we were a few years ago. Despite that and the nightly loss of consciousness, the illusion of continuity is maintained.

[max10wonderboy]

@Underlings

Peraphs we can substitute brain cells with artificial cells. I am a firm believer in transfer vs copying