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With the introduction into physics of the Dirac/Dyson Eternal Life Postulate, science has taken the last independent stronghold of theology.

— Frank J. Tipler The Physics of Immortality (1994)

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Only if God is not in any sense contingent can one avoid regress posed in the query, who created God?

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It is argued that if extraterrestrial intelligent beings exist, then their spaceships must already be present in our solar system.

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It is a deficiency in computer technology, which prevents us from beginning the exploration of the Galaxy tomorrow.

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It would... not be... inaccurate to regard one of the subprograms of the universal mind in the far future, one with a Turing Test-passing subprogram, as an "angel."

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Even if there were no planets in the stellar system... the... machine could be programmed to turn some of the material into an O'Neill colony...

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