So I just read this whole thread, and commented upon it top down. And I must say that I side with "Reality" on the issue.

Here are my comments according to what I've read here:

Hello, Reality:
As myself now an A-theist, though for most of my life naively a Christian, or so I naively called myself, I thought back then that God was some Absolute Entity to whom applied a Personality, and so I, too, asked again and again the same heart-rending questions as here you proffer.

Now I have found, having lost my religion, that not only does the truth set you free, it also sucks!
Because the truth is, I believe, that God “is real” ONLY AS our next phase of human evolution (which is why the idea of God is in our heads at all, archetypally); and a lot of people do not want to hear this because it puts the onus on them to step up to the plate and “play God” (which “playing God” also, along with “acts of God”, has negative connotations).

For, if it IS up to us humans to bring God about on this planet as a reality (this being opposed to blindly following the self-fulfilling prophecy of the Armageddon that the majority of the world assents to and even wishes for--Goddamn them!), then we, as Humanity, must rise up and take over the world.
And yet this uprising is as equally naive now as was then my previous life as a Christian.

Fuck "Occupy Wall Street," that’s peanuts--We need an Occupy World Movement.
And perhaps Global Warming, which was phase 1 of our so-called Human fuck-up that has now so obviously led to phase 2--Global Climate Change--shall, when it reaches phase 3, Global Catastrophes as common everyday news, wake up those who remain to a real Humanity before the onset of phase 4, the next Ice Age.

As for Civil Order, Yes, it is all problematic! You cannot expect a civil standard to govern what is actually now closer to 9 billion people (than 7 billion); which makes the modern day scenario even more problematic--with ever more people on the way.

“Why can’t we all just get along?” is the naive question of a buffoon.
The world is too diversely split up; and the roots of those splits run too deep.
And so, even millennia ago people recognised this problematic factionalism and requisitioned, in the forms of religion, the Deus Ex Machina to solve the problem--which according to millennia of such like-unminded requisitioners = annihilation of the human race being tantamount to salvation, because then at least all undue suffering would cease.
And so people pray for Armageddon. And I say Fuck them! They should all go to hell and jump in a lake! Leaving the planet to humans.

What it all comes down to is a question of education. But it's too late for this.
We ARE headed for The Matrix and the Singularity; and technology is so autonomous at this point that the future of the human race is a moot point (not in the older sense of the word as still debatable, but in the modern sense as already finalized).

It makes me sad and oft depressed that we could have ushered into this world a new human individual/social paradigm referred to as God, being our next, given phase of conscious evolution--, but instead of this (and that, because of the actions of the so-called Church for the last few thousand years; the rational people running as far away as possible from said Church) we have turned to science too strongly, in order to get away from the heinousness of religion forever, but to the point where we have already crossed the evolutionary line and handed off the torch to AI, having sold ourselves out to our own technology: which is as equally heinous as anything the Church has ever done. For both Church and Artificial Intelligence spell out the end of Humanity.

In response to Pitar’s comment on this thread. Yes, you are exactly right. But you are only exactly right if humans are still going to be living on this planet in the next 100 years.
We’re not.
Therefore you are wrong in your gentle wisdomicile of hippie-like assuagement. I do not mean you offense as a person, but according to your “Don’t sweat it: let it go” attitude on this thread--: you REALLY DO NOT KNOW what’s going on on this planet, what's coming down the pike, do you?
On a Global scale: the shit’s about to hit the fan.
And I can see you there in that not too-distant future calmly playing your guitar before being incinerated by the nuclear blast that just went off a few major cities away from you.

But, Whatever. At that point it doesn't matter anyway; 'cause you've already realised the true...

I think you owe it to "Reality" to reread his post, and respond, not like some hippie heroin junkie (which IS how your response came across), but like a human being. The guy's asking world-important questions and it seems like you're just hanging out, telling him to be mellow, as you shit all over his feelings.

Pitar. That is how you come across.
Reality. Sorry.

A note on Kurzweil and the Singularity.
He is right is what he says about it. But he is wrong if he thinks we are going to last long enough to be around for it.

And even there is a divide: even if we were going to last long enough to be around for it, how many humans do you think want to make the leaping transitional pseudo-evolutionary phases from human to cyborg to robot?
Percentage-wise, very few.

I just find it ridiculous how people who are so smart try to argue that Artificial Intelligence is part of our natural evolution. AI is going to annihilate not only the human race, but AI!

Thus as ridiculous as it is, there is no mental platform upon which to place the ridicule.

The descriptive process of human annihilation I posit is not just about AI.
It is more about the fact that the majority of people on this planet are oblivious to the Global effects of Climate Change--because these effects have not yet reached daily catastrophic levels.

To which I clarify: the powers that be in this world, being those who run it, are so intent on AI as the next phase of our individual and social evolution, that very little attention, percentage-wise, is being paid to the upcoming Global catastrophes that are going to end up basically wiping us out (and if not completely wiped out, then at least reducing the population so drastically that I do not think it hyperbole to guesstimate a 90% wipe-out rate of the world population).

So I am not saying that the end of humanity will be the direct fault of AI, but that AI is a major diverting factor gravitating attention away from Climate Change.
And I do not mean to come across as a doomsday sayer, but if one has not already noticed record-breaking weather patterns already in nascent effect around the globe, then: see what's going to happen in the next 10-20 years as Catastrophe becomes a daily occurrence. An "act of God" a day keeps the people away. Example of an unfunny joke.

This why I said in my previous post that "we have turned to science too strongly, in order to get away from the heinousness of religion": and so while we, as a human race (the powers that be as well as the consumers) are concentrating on AI more and more, the Global Climate will be getting more and more aggressive > to the point of daily catastrophes all over the globe.

So I cannot describe other than generally the process of our annihilation. But 1) all are to blame for it: the Church, the advocates of Robotism, the lying Politicians and suave World Leaders, the ignorant media-imbibing Public; and yet at the same time 2) there is no one to blame, because when all such are thrown into the mix, the outcome is inevitable: the end of the human race.
And this inevitability makes me sad. Because the entire world would have to slam on its brakes to keep this annihilation from happening; and that braking is not going to happen.

I remember Stephen Hawking saying something to the tune of "I we are going to survive, then we need to get or DNA off of this planet, because the planet's already fucked; it just hasn't happened yet." (And I'm sorry I can't find that reference for you.)

If I left something out, and this was too summary, just call me on it, and I'll respond.
But again, I am no seer of the future, and cannot explicate concise details: they, the details, are too interwoven throughout too many fields of action and thought to be decisively enumerated.

As for the thread topic, "God Gets Credit": Who will be left to give the credit for ending all human suffering by wiping it out? It was our collective fault, but we won't be here to receive the credit.

And as for AI, I am no Luddite, nor Saboteur, though I might come across that way; I just see AI as a major part of the mix that will aid in culminating in our end.

AI is a joke, IMO. When you can make a robot that can do half of the following I'll get worried:

1) walk to my kitchen
2) find the refrigerator
3) find where my wife hid the eggs
4) retrieve 2 eggs
5) retrieve the cheese
6) retrieve an onion
7) find a bowl
8) grate the cheese into the bowl
9) clean and chop the onion and put in bowl
10) break the eggs into the bowl without putting in shells in
11) scramble the eggs in the bowl
12) find where my niece put the skillet
13) Oil and heat up the skillet to the right temperature
14) Add the mix and season it nicely
15) finish the omelet
16) Not step on the dog during this process, and prevent him from stealing any thing

I know where your wife hid the eggs ";" but where did stow or stuff away the cheese and the onion? It's probably where your niece stashed the skillet.
I am not sure if a robot is capable of not stepping on the dog while at the same time thus not preventing him (I assume the dog) from stealing anything.

Interesting. You use words in a sort of, though tight, mathematical differentiality. Nice.
Now where's that damn skillet! ha ha ha ha ha...

Hey, you juss wait there a minute, buddy! --Where's your kitchen?