Godhood

“I would presently expect end-of-universe intelligences will be vastly more capable and intelligent than us, but still nothing like the Omnipotent God we find in the Abrahamic religions. Rather I expect they’ll be much more like the Greek Demigods, flawed and limited in what they can do.”“The Intelligent Universe” (1983), Hoyle says:
“‘God’ is a forbidden word in science, but if we define an intelligence superior to ourselves as a deity, then in this book we have arrived at two kinds — the intelligences of Chapter 9 [the natural gods] and the ‘God’ of the infinite future we have just been discussing. Interestingly, these two very different forms of intelligence correspond closely with the Greek idea of deities as managers of an already existing Universe on the one hand, and the Judaeo-Christian idea of a deity outside the Universe on the other.”