Cloning

What about cloning?

God’s answer was pretty simple. Since she made us in an image of her, it’s always been pretty much inevitable that we would try to make people in ours.

It’s recursion, all the way down.

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Comment by gglazer
On November 18, 2006 at 10:14 am

Are you sure it isn’t the other way around?

“If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.”
- Montesquieu

Perhaps we have a natural urge to create in our own image and deity was our first attempt at it.

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