Compared to most European lifestyles they were observed as disgraceful, disgusting, violent, immoral, and unethical societies and in those days, it was something horrific. The Tower of Babel in Mesopotamia was the next “Fall of Man.” The world was a wicked place in the days of Noah. When they had all been on the Ark together, Noah had insisted that everyone be sexually continent, but Ham, by the aid of a magic demon, slept with his wife…” And the Curse of Ham was in effect. What is more, this is not the first of Ham's transgressions. He mocked Noah's nakedness, and invited his brothers to do the same (which they refused). Whizzing forward to the medieval versions we learn more about the nature of Ham's misdeeds. ![]() He shall be his brothers' meanest slave.'. When Noah wakes up and learns what has happened, he lays a curse not upon Ham but upon Ham's son: 'Accursed be Canaan. sees his father's nakedness and tells his two brothers what has happened. Noah plants a vineyard, makes wine, and falls into a stupor in his tent. So, here is a theory for how the origins of North America could be considered if we were to return to that way of thinking. Creation is what America was originally taught about human beginnings prior to this. It should be done with logic, reasoning, and science of course. The way American society has been taught the history of the world has changed since the start of the 1900s. But there are consequences for individuals and societies that choose to be gods.The history of original indigenous contact with Europeans should be taught differently, considering the absence of written documentation. Like the Tower of Babel, humans are playing god and think with such advancements as AI they actually have the ability to make it happen. Administrators of so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” claim to know what is in every human heart, offering a road to forgiveness that runs through them and them alone. Doctors play god, purporting to “correct” the mistakes of a person’s sex. When you recognize this, you see it everywhere. While these might seem like separate problems, they all have the same root cause: the desire to be gods. The number of divisions according to skin color, so-called gender identity, sexuality, and ethnicity is truly mind-boggling. ![]() We characterize our divisions as liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republican, secular humanists versus the Christian right, urban versus rural, and the haves versus the have-nots. Confused, scattered, and separated into camps, we can’t understand each other or work together. In Hebrew, “Babel” sounds like the word for “confused,” a word that could also apply to our situation today. “That is why it was called Babel - because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth” (v.9). However, an interface that looks and acts human with a distinctive personality transforms its maker into a creator, a god, who shares the same desire as the Mesopotamian brickmakers.įor the brickmakers, it was a confusion of language that stopped them from building the city and the tower, and after the confusion came the scattering. Those who controlled the technology built the tower and planned to ascend to the top as gods.īack in the modern world of the 21st century, placing an AI interface on phones, tablets, or laptops is decidedly ungodlike. Armed with such advanced technology, this innovative society set out to build a city and “a tower that reaches to the heavens,” with the intent to “make a name for ourselves” (v.4). “‘Come let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar” (v.3). The 11th chapter of Genesis describes ancient Mesopotamia’s newest world-changing technology as brickmaking. To understand the mindset of AI developers, perhaps we should revisit the biblical Tower of Babel. press conference, the technology is often represented as being human. Yet when it comes to AI, particularly in high-profile settings like the U.N. ![]() A voice intended to resemble a human voice gives verbal directions, but no one could confuse it for an actual human voice, nor does it have any embodiment. This technology is displayed on your phone or on your car’s dashboard. Type in a destination, and the technology gives driving directions specific to your needs. The same is mostly true for the navigation systems in our cars. Amazon’s Alexa, while a less sophisticated technology, listens to questions and provides answers, yet none of its devices remotely resemble a human. ChatGPT is powered by AI but remains a computer interface. The question is why? Why do originators and developers of AI strive to represent the technology as human? Creating a human-like robot isn’t necessary.
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