GOD, EVOLUTION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

First, from the New York Times this morning:

• President Biden will meet with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London tomorrow.
• Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby is also tomorrow, followed by the All-Star game on Tuesday.

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  NATO leaders are scheduled to meet for a summit in Lithuania starting Tuesday.
• Friday is Bastille Day in France.
• The Wimbledon women’s singles final will be on Saturday, and the men’s final is on Sunday.  The surprise so far is 16-year old Mirra Andreeva of Russia, playing here for the first time, earning a spot in the fourth round.

The conventional Christian view of evolution can be found in the King James version of The Bible, where Genesis says (you can refer to the first link to view missing elements):

[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

[3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

[8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

[13] And the evening and the morning were the third day.

[19] And the evening and the morning were the fourth day,

[21] And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
[22] And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
[23] And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

[30] And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
[31] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

From Genesis II:

[1] Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
[2] And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

[8] And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

[22] And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

[25] And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis III

[1] Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

[20] And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

This goes on and on into Genesis 50.

[26] So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Here are two scientific views of evolution:

The Bible says God accomplished all the above from light to Adam and Eve around 9,700 years ago.  Science goes further back, to 13.8 billion years ago, with the Big Bang.  But what happened before that explosion, and how did those components come to be?  God?

In any case, are we, Homo sapiens, the end, as shown in the first graphic above?  What about artificial intelligence (AI)?  Watch this 40 second version of evolution beyond us.  AI seems to be taking over.  Are we humans thus just another link to the ultimate form, devoid of organics?

Dang Star Wars and Star Trek, will outer space travel only involve AI?  

• Let's face it, our biological limitation will make long-distance space travel impossible.  

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  Whether it's cosmic rays or just plain time, the first aliens, if they exist, to visit us will be AI.
• From the middle of our Milky Way Galaxy to the outer edges, light takes from 50,000 to 100,000 years.  Then from our galaxy to our closest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, light would take 2.5 million years.
• Thus, even if we can find a way to go 90% the speed of light, it would take thousands of years to reach another planet with potential life.  However, at 25,000 miles per hour, which was accomplished by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, that is only 1% the speed of light.

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  Worm holes and other more esoteric concepts purportedly can perhaps result in future travel close to or even faster than the speed of light, but don't count on it.

In other words, we should imagine future intelligence billions of years into the future not in human bodies, but some form of silicon or other molecules or the ether.  Humanity's greatest achievement could well be to create our successors.  Is this what God intended?  Or maybe there is no God.  Or could the ultimate AI be God?

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