by Christyl Rivers

Created on: September 02, 2011

“Technosticism” is what happens when technology and science lead us from our own neural pathways, via fiber optic networks, through electrical pulses, to here.  It’s all kind of mysterious, so maybe there is a god.

This title is easy to love, because unlike most our frequent, freakishly, binary titles on Helium, this one does not suggest that promoting atheism or agnosticism is good or bad.

That is refreshing.

Now to the answer, of course technology promotes agnosticism and even atheism.  If we are the ones who engineer, develop, and understand it, we see natural laws that do not require that we invoke a god at work in the actual world.

That said, few of us have a clue how our television makes that fat man shout, or how cars zoom magically across paved surfaces, or even how water goes from a rain drop, to a river, to a hop plant to a beer can, to subsequently be peed back into rain drops.

However, just as science and technology evolve, so does religion.  It will not be a stretch, and many would say it is already well under way, that people simply re-define what God is. The god who created earth as the center of the Universe, and humans as the most important organism at that center, has retired long ago with Copernicus.  It’s nice to think that He, Copernicus, Bruno, Kepler and Galileo watch us through an even more advanced telescope than the NGST.  All while they kick back around the Barbie with some Brewskis, (although Bruno may be an ardent vegan by now, given his aversion to roasted flesh) just watching as everything evolves.

Some would say we are more intelligent than humans 20,000 years ago, but that means some of us put our intelligence toward technology, while most of us just forgot how to read the night sky, track the trail of our prey (unless it’s internet porn), and we simply go along with the frenzied pace of new gadgets without realizing we are wholly dependent upon them.  Most could not survive so well as Neanderthals if our remote is misplaced, or our hand held, bleepin’ thing just fell in the toilet again.

Literate people today are beginning to see much more indication of tolerance of agnosticism, and even the backlash toward fundamental religions, can be read as an indicator that we are once more growing smaller in significance to the vastness of the Multiverse.  Our gods either have to grow along with us, or we leave them behind.

Many scientists, which once were linked with

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