Maybe our "god" is just an algorithm and we are all just variables in an array. Hell maybe we're not even code at all anymore, maybe we're just the conscious of a VR world's avatar, of an avatar, of an avatar......
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The key is in the language. If we're talking about a computer system, then we have words for that and we shouldn't call it anything else. We don't point at a dog and call it a car... so if someone talks about space aliens or AI systems as being god, they aren't making a case for God, they're just using words wrong.
No. Illustrations. Allegories. Parables. Fables. Nursery rhymes. We say things and relate them to other things all of the time. Personification. There are so many things we do with these techniques. It helps us in so many ways.