God

The deep connection between human spirituality and advancing technology has proven to be intimate. As our understanding of technology grows, so does our understanding of the spiritual universe, it seems. Over the eons, our conception of God has formed and reformed into the shape of our technology. Not only that, spiritual figures are seen as a master of current and future technology. Early man saw gods and goddesses as hunters or warriors. Statues and artwork portrayed deities wielding the latest technology of destruction-bows and arrows, spears, and, sometimes, darting about in the new model year chariot. The Middle East, where most of our current major religions ferments, saw the rise of a God who was more like a tribal chieftain. As the Renaissance approached, God was no longer the angry warrior. He was a clockmaker, an expert, deterministic mathematician that [...]