[ExI] VP for Creationism

[Lee Corbin]

Mike writes

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM, giovanni santost
> <santostasigio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Do you think that as the cognitive capability of human beings will increase,
>> in particular as and if we will merge with super intelligent machines, the
>> childish belief in soothing tales like christianity will still exist? In
>> other words, after 2000 years of lies and fraud, the days of christianity
>> are counted?
> 
> Yes... and no.
> 
> If we are able to think 1e3 times faster and 1e3 times as grand, I
> expect there will be people 1e6 times as gullible or willing to be
> relinquish their right to think for themselves.  I'm not saying I like
> this, but I have no reason to believe it won't be true.

Nowadays, I think that most religions, and all that set up any sort
of new extensions of reality (e.g. heaven or hell, or specify the
existence of personalities or persons not in principle capable of
ever being located in ordinary 3-space), would die on the vine
if no one were ever indoctrinated before age 25 or so.

Lee