First, there were single cells. For billions of years earth was inhibited only by single cell organisms. Then, there came multi-cell animals. Entities with a higher consciousness, aware of the world around them but acting more or less like machines. The brain in animals works more or less just to keep the community of cells they are made of; alive!
The third stage in evolution happened just recently, the human brain, with a consciousness totally separate and free from the community of cells it is made of. A brain that can think thoughts alien to the cells it is made of, thoughts that don't have anything to do with the day to day survival of the cells it is made of.
The fourth stage of evolution started 200 years ago, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. We are still at the beginning and nobody can say what a new consciousness will arise out of the totality of the human brains that comprise the industrial societies.
That consciousness might be close to what we think of as GOD.
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