God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith February 15, 2023 DOI: 10.56315/pscf3-23ogieblyn (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Book review Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 31 |
| Key findings | Argues that God is a human projection rather than a divine original, and recounts the author's personal movement away from her childhood Christian faith toward understanding herself "more or less as a machine." |
Abstract
Meghan O'Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine is the most honest, insightful, and therefore challenging book of its kind I have ever read. Part intellectual memoir and part philosophy, it walks us through O'Gieblyn's journey away from the Christian faith of her youth toward seeing herself "more or less as a machine" (p. 7). God, she has become convinced, is a projection of the human imagination, a product of our solipsism. "For centuries we said we were made in God's image, when in truth we made him in ours" (p. 12).