Quote Originally Posted by MastaChronic
eventually science, with the help of machines and technology, will answer every question that god used to answer.
I'm not so sure of this. Although Science has revealed answers to many questions, it has (in my opinion) created even more questions than it has solved. Also, even with advances in computers and scientific equipment that has extended our reach of understanding beyond our own five senses, it is extremely limited by the scope of our consciousness and how we percieve reality. There is much out there that we will never encounter, let alone be able to understand.

As far as the Machine god thing, I don't think that would be likely to happen, for two reasons -- the first being that it would take a long time and quite a lot of resources to reach that state of technological advancement, and we may very well go extinct before that happens (I don't know whether we will colonize space, but I somehow doubt that's going to happen). The second reason is, any entity that becomes so intelligent to the point of becoming a 'perfect sentience' would have no reason to seek out power or followers. It would have no reason to seek out anything, because it would already be perfect on its own.

It is an interesting idea, in any case. :stoned: