Artificial Life 人造生命

The age of artificial life has come.  The universe, including life, continues to be demystified.  Is life divinely created by God or just another physical structure subject to human manipulation?  God continues to shrink.  Paul Tillich's idea of God as "ground of being" perhaps in effect announces that science has chased God to His final refuge of a thin film of mystical "ground" under the feet of everything.

人造生命的時代來臨了。宇宙和其中的生命繼續被去神秘化。生命是否上帝神聖的創造？抑或只是另一個任人拆解和操控的物質結構？上帝繼續萎縮。當蒂利希（田立克）呼喊上帝是「存在的基礎」，他或許實在是宣告科學已把上帝驅趕到祂的最終歸宿：萬物腳下踏著的一層薄薄的神秘「基礎」。

TIME June 7, 2010 p10