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Human aspirations for technology are vast.

One day, maybe our tech will cure cancer,

riddance of viruses, fix that pesky climate change,

even deliver us from death.

Elon Musk.

Everything that's encoded in memory, you can upload,

and ultimately you could potentially download them into a new body

or into a robot body.

The future is going to be weird.

Our Megan O'Giblin put her faith in technology after leaving the fundamentalist

evangelical church that nurtured her.

Her teachers at Bible College, who embraced a resurgent Calvinist theology,

believed in a God O'Giblin couldn't accept.

Calvinism in the form that I was taught was very much focused on predestination.

You know, we don't have a choice in our own salvation.

It's decided for us before we're ever born.

We don't really have free will.

And it also brought up a lot of problems for me just about the nature of God,

this idea that people were going to suffer for eternity and hell

when they didn't even have a choice in accepting or rejecting the gospel.

O'Giblin is the author of the book, God Human Animal Machine,

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