The science fiction web site IO9 picked up on my blog entry about robots named John and their questions for God, resulting in some interesting discussions both there and here.
On a related subject, Metanexus’ online magazine The Global Spiral has an issue focusing on transhumanism. The title of the issue is “H+:Transhumanism Answers Its Critics”. While religious believers are often among the more vocal critics of attempts to “play God” and “tamper with nature”, such criticisms are based on an outmoded understanding of creation. If, as is clearly the case, our current form of human existence has been brought about through a long series of natural processes both historically and in each individual case, it is far from obvious that such processes as a rule unfold and act upon us beneficially, while wilful human intervention is always an inappropriate act of hubris. On the contrary, interfering with the natural course of events out of a motivation for justice and compassion ought to be central to, and the defining feature of, a Christian approach to science, as well as to other aspects of life.
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