Can you teach CREATIONISM to a ROBOT?

[frank frankly]

We are experiencing a severe rise in religious fundamentalism at the same time we are beginning to use nanotechnology and make clones and explore Mars.

We are re-debating the existance of dinosaurs while we have robots that can run and play chess and many other things we aren't even told about.

I spent yesterday with some of my very religious relatives. The way they speak about Bush and our immoral secular world...wow. They, like all fundamentalists, have been terrifyingly empowered by BushCo.

I know many of the people here see the madness in our current situation. I just can't believe it sometimes. I have been expecting my head to explode for over two years straight now.

:shrug:

[0rganism]

1. You could probably teach a robot to evangelize

As to whether it would believe its own rhetoric... well, that cuts more to the question of whether a robot can hold an abstract belief at all.

Either way, there would be fundamentalists ready to buy preacher robots like hotcakes. They may deny the possibility of evolution, but I've never seen one turn down antibiotics...

[corporatewhore]

2. there was an evagelitical robot preacher on futurama

[robbedvoter]

9. "I chose to believe in what I was programed to believe" Bender

[Rex]

3. Christ will come back as a robot.

The true question is - Gobot or Transformer?

[brokensymmetry]

4. Sure.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void){

char input_array<256>;
int i;
printf("Evolution works. Your response? ");
scanf("%s",input_array);

/* ignoring input */
/* output automatic response */
for(i = 0;i<10;i++)
printf("Nope, I'm not listening! It's creationism or nothing!\n");


return 0;
}


See? It's really quite a simple program! :)

[Aidoneus]

5. I tried once..

it keeps spitting back "does not compute". :shrug:

[wasichu]

6. thank GOD my relatives are atheist!

:o

[treepig]

7. you can teach creationism ONLY to robots

any entity capable of thought quickly rejects such nonsense

[frank frankly]

8. does not compute???

:kick: