So shiggy diggy this: Regardless of what we actually think about God, most of us would agree that it certainly wouldn't be all that bad if there were a God (yes, there are issues with some of the specifics laid out by various doctrines, but please hear me out). Having a being more powerful than anything else in the universe looking out for you seems like a pretty good deal. Now many have pointed to this as evidence that a belief in God is simply wishful thinking. Assuming that it is, what does this say about ourselves? I think it says that a great deal of us wish there were a God. Throughout modern human history we've propped up a number of governments and social structures that fill the roles (governing our lives and the lives of others) that many religions claim their God holds. In even more modern history, our pursuit of artificial intelligence (with the goal of making an intelligence more powerful and durable than our own some would argue) with the knowledge of the possibility of a technological singularity seems to suggest that this interest is still alive. So what's this mean going forward? Should we preserve this aspect of our humanity, then as we continue to develop technologically, we may turn our technology towards building our oldest dream. Now some would say that we'd more likely want to become God, but to be the ultimate arbiter of reality doesn't really seem like a position any human would want; any relevance or meaning to your actions would be up to you. Freedom from absolutely everything means a pointless existence unless you create one (so maybe we're the point that a God is trying to bring to its existence). Regardless, if we built something like God, it wouldn't be very human anymore anyways; even if it were based on one of us. As it stands, we may build something like this long before we develop the technology to control reality. But if what we develop develops this technology, and it still holds some of our values, then it would be as God. If this being can move through our concept of time and space at whim, then it "already" may exist in the sense that it can reach us. It's been said before that man invented God, but the reality may be much more literal than that statement implies. And even if we perish before reaching this technology, it would still be possible that other beings wouldn't. If you accept the notion of the multiverse theory, then there may be an infinite number of chances for this to happen. In the end, it could very well be atheistic scientific genius that built God.