The New God Argument is a logical argument for faith in God, given assumptions consistent with current science and emerging technology trends.
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You can't know God by feeling good about an answer -- feelings mislead. You know your hopes, doubts, the sublime moments that move you to act. Amplify that without limit, and that's how it would feel to be a compassionate and creative superintelligence. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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Elder Gong: AI's moral compass shouldn't be dictated solely by the technology or the few who build it. Same test for any power -- distribute, or concentrate? AI magnifies whatever we're already becoming. lincoln.metacannon.net/2025/…
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Jesus: "Raise the dead." Also Jesus: does it repeatedly. TrueChristian®: heresy, plus a bot that checks your Trinity flair before it checks whether you follow his example. New article: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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Compassion, generalized: decentralization forces cooperation, and cooperation at its limit looks like compassion. A civilization with more decentralized power is probably more compassionate. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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Could you ever, through all eternity, find out the generation where Gods began to be? Mormon theology suggests a third option beyond finite or infinite regress: an indefinite one -- and quantum physics may show why. New essay: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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Doubting God's existence is one thing. Distrusting our compassionate, creative, superhuman potential is another. New God Argument 4.0 warns atheism may entail the second. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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New God Argument 4.0 renames its Faith Assumption the Courage Assumption. Faith as unearned certainty asks for a feeling. Faith as trust that motivates action under uncertainty asks for courage. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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Every version of the Compassion Argument is a special case of one idea: decentralized power breeds cooperation indistinguishable from compassion. New God Argument 4.0: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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A superhuman civilization has three ways forward: extinction, a centralizing "singleton," or growing more compassionate than we are. The New God Argument bets that decentralized power makes compassion the likely outcome. Version 4.0: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
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Pope John Paul II taught that humanity is called to divinization -- to literally become God through grace. This is theosis: not metaphor, but transformation. Catholic tradition affirms what Mormon Transhumanism embraces. new-god-argument.com/support…
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Playing God isn't blasphemy -- it's our highest calling. The drive to improve ourselves and shape our world is the engine of all human progress. Theosis isn't a distant doctrine; it's our trajectory. new-god-argument.com/support…
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If we trust in our own superhuman potential, we should trust we have a compassionate creator. Atheism may entail distrust in that potential -- a curious incoherence worth examining. new-god-argument.com/god-con…
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If superhumanity would create many worlds like ours, and we trust our own potential, then we probably already live in one. Trust in what we can become is trust in what may have made us. new-god-argument.com/creatio…
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Trust in our own superhuman potential entails faith in a compassionate creator. Atheism may be incoherent for transhumanists — distrust in God may be distrust in our own future. new-god-argument.com/god-con…
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Power decentralizes. Risk compounds. Survival demands compassion. Superhumanity either grows more compassionate than us — or it doesn't survive to become super. Trust our potential; trust compassion wins. new-god-argument.com/compass…
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If we trust our own superhuman potential, we should trust we have a compassionate creator. Atheism combined with trust in superhuman potential may be incoherent. Faith in God may follow from faith in our future. new-god-argument.com/god-con…
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Jefferson called it cowardly to deny the human mind's capacity for further advances. I agree. Trust in our superhuman potential isn't naive optimism. It's the courage to act on the Faith Assumption: that we can survive long enough to evolve. new-god-argument.com/support…
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As decentralized power increases, so must cooperation. At its limit, cooperation is indistinguishable from compassion. That's the logic: survive together or not at all. Compassion isn't optional. new-god-argument.com/compass…
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Early Christians didn't just worship God—they taught we should become God. Theosis isn't heresy; it's ancient orthodoxy. Church fathers were explicit: humanity's destiny is deification. new-god-argument.com/support…
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