Replies

At the deepest most important level of all, the conception of universal evolution posited in the article, “Evolution of Life on Earth in 4 Steps” is an ancient pantheist religious creed revamped and revised for our science, technology, and evolution obsessed society. In this particular model, there are 8 essential beliefs listed below in no particular order:

1. The divine energy or consciousness is present everywhere within nature and man and is therefore the divine essence or spark in the minds of humans, thus Orwell's Big Brother states that reality is inside his skull. This means that every person is a potential god because they are aspects of the evolving divine consciousness.

2. The divine energy is represented by both female and male energies. These two major aspects of the divine are the goddess and god, although the divine, being beyond limitations of gender, is androgynous (transgender).

3. Animism: nature is infused with evolving divine spirit, consciousness, or life force and is thus alive with divine energy or soul, meaning for example, that Gaia (earth) and mystical concepts such as 'evolution' are alive.

4. Magic and/or occult science: the principle instrument of initiates, adepts, and god-men employed to acquire hidden knowledge (gnosis).

5. Spiritual evolution: evolutionary progress over time resulting in apotheosis, or the ‘Meta-Intelligence.

6. Subjectivism: there is no objective truth and reality; whatever one wishes to be true and real is subjectively true and real for that person, i.e., the author of the article under discussion..

7. History as a linear record of events in space and time is scientifically untenable and thus replaced with escalator and reincarnation models.

8. Mystical experience eventuating in ‘global’ or ‘cosmic’ consciousness

In conclusion, "As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of man be."

This sort of naive yearning and dreaming, combined with the scientific and technological ability to make it reality, will lead to things hideous beyond imagining. As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.

It can work both ways. Do you think technological achievement has not been foreseen or approved of by God? I see Gods hand in our improving lives and the reduction of many sorrows. Christendom has been at the heart of most improving technology.

There is no reason that God cannot work to do good through technology. Perhaps it is part of God’s plan to use mankind to spread life throughout the Universe.