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God is dead, said the man with the world’s most exciting moustache. And many, seeing the dogma of ancient traditions as an anachronistic throwback to a time before the rise of reason, would seek to ensure that this process is completed as soon as possible.

We need to stop. Take a deep breath. We need to turn our anger into discriminating intelligence and wisdom before it is too late.

On a recent edition of my weekly radio show, my co-host and I spent an hour tossing around the concept of human exceptionalism, the idea that human beings are fundamentally different from all other species.

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.