Soft Machines

Are we just incredibly complex, soft machines?


I am going to make a lot of simplistic arguments, in the hopes that someone may be able to offer me a reasonable answer or explanation to my questions. I am not a trained scientist, but I am friends with many of them; and for the record I would like to state that I have the utmost respect for the discipline of science. What I am much more leery of is Scientism...a new term I have learned that basically describes the efforts of some people to turn science into something metaphysical that can explain all the meaningful questions of life. Science can explain a lot, but it most definitely cannot answer everything.

So again, are we just incredibly complex, soft machines? Organic robots made by chance and nature?

If I believe in solely chance and evolution as the 'impersonal creators' of who I am. I wonder how it is I came to think of and question my 'impersonal creators.'

One day we could make computers and robots copy cat and mimic human behavior so realistically, that some may actually choose to live with a robot rather than a real human. But the fact remains that you can't program a robot to actually care, or have a preference.

Chance and Evolution can only really be described using adjectives like automatic, mechanical, impersonal, amoral, unthinking and impartial. So the question I ask myself is how come none of those adjectives can be used to adequately describe me, my wife, my family or my friends.

It almost seems ridiculous to me sometimes, that I need to build a case that confirms that humans are more then just flesh and complex organisms. We ponder our existence. We have anxiety about one day going from being (existence) to nonbeing (physical death/non-existence).

We are capable of such wonderful, majestic, beautiful things that go beyond mere nature...and like all abilities we see the flip side when these gifts from God are twisted and perverted.

The God of the Bible shows us the reality of who we are. Beings of God given immense inherent value, who are in a fallen state because of our rebellion against God.

If you choose to get rid of God, you dehumanize humanity, and turn us simply into complex, soft, organic machines. Whatever aspirations, hopes and dreams we have...just a chemical construct from our gods chance and nature.