What is God, Who is God. The necessary being. Maker of all things visible and invisible. Creator of the laws of the physical world, creator of reality. The First Cause and Source of all things. The direct creator of nature and indirect creator of Man’s creations. Creator of the laws of the physical world, creator of reality.
God is the Divine Goodness, Divine Beauty, Truth, Love, and Logos.
How then can we say that one can play God. Even if we take it that playing is not the same as being. Even if playing is merely an imitation. How can we imitate being metaphysically necessary. How can we imitate making a non-illusory reality. How can we imitate being the First Cause, by definition there can always be only one First Cause. How can we play as if we are the creator, the inventor of Man, if we will always stay as Man. How do we imitate creating laws of our universe (more on simulation later).
How can we imitate being metaphysically simple, how do we imitate existing as our own essences. How on earth or in the universe or multiverse, can we be the idea of the Good, Being beauty himself, being Truth, being Love or being Logos.
The answer is impossible, not just because of limitations of our time, of our abilities, but because it is rationally invalid.
To highlight an important example of the usual usage of the phrase playing God, let us look into genetic manipulation. Genetic manipulation may first seem like imitating creation, trying to create a new Man, a Transhuman, a new species. However, this does not come anywhere close God’s creation. Did we rewrite the laws of genetics, of chemical interactions? Can we do manipulation without God’s creations, hence creating something entirely new? Without any blueprints from previous genes, without the idea of the DNA. Are we not merely recycling and fulfilling God’s creation.
Even if we are be able to create life from scratch, we are nowhere near imitating God. For the creation of life is merely an infinitesimal fraction of God’s creation. More so, if we only manipulate genes, even if we manipulate our own genes. These pale in comparison if we compare with the creation of physical laws alone.
How about immortality, is trying to achieve physical immortality playing God? No, God is Eternal not immortal, and our eternal life is nothing like physical immortality. One is merely staying in time, one is being beyond time.
How about artificial intelligence? No, emphasizing the word artificial is enough to prove that our actions differ from God’s qualitatively.
Even if we create the technological singularity, it is still not playing God, for God can smite the tower of Babel in any instance; but us, we will have no power to keep it up or to smite it with a word.
Playing God is impossible. It is rationally invalid. Lord There is none like you, and this is a rational deduction.
“Death is naked before him, and nothingness hath no covering. He stretcheth out the north over empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He createth the forces and keepeth the laws in place.”
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