[extropy-chat] Re: Intelligent Design and Irriducible Complexity

[Kevin Freels]

Reminds me of the "Otherland" stories by Tad Williams. Ever read it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Hal Finney"" <hal at finney.org>
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Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Re: Intelligent Design and Irriducible
Complexity


> Gennady Ra writes:
> > Creation began when one of the aeons accidentally created the  "Rulers,"
> > powerful angels who fell from the Pleroma and built  a  first  heaven
> > underneath  it. These angels created another  heaven  beneath  them,
> > populated by yet more Rulers; creation  proceeded  apace until soon
there
> > were 365 heavens, one inside the other, each succeeding layer filled
with
> > beings completely unaware of all those above them.
> >
> > The  Rulers  who  control the lowest heaven (the one most Christians
know
> > about) made the Earth and everything on it; their leader Yahweh
impersonates
> > "God" in the Old Testament.
>
> That's a cute story.  But from the Extropian perspective it is not over.
> The next step is clearly for us to create universes below our own,
> in the form of computer simulations which we will preside over as gods.
> Then the inhabitants of those universes would themselves eventually create
> their own sub-universes, and so on forever.
>
> Hal
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