Spiritual Themes in Transformers the Movie

Movie Prologue: "Before time began, there was theand omnipotent, could invent this. Do you see how
Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that itcreative life is? He invented life before life existed. We
holds the power to create worlds, and fill them with life.think we're smart for manipulating the biological
That is how our race was born..."systems that God put in place, but He invented life, and
The creators of Transformers chose a cube as abiology for that matter. He also decided that we should
supernatural life-source, or "All-Spark." This is flawedhave the capacity to manipulate life. God
from the outset because this is only an arbitrary shape.demonstrates his divinity by bringing into existence that
A cube is definable and understandable to the humanwhich did not previously exist. We mortals can only
mind, which proves that a human came up with it. Thecome up with revised versions of the reality that
All-Spark is also flawed because its vulnerable to thealready exists. Someone who twists reality better than
same creatures it created. It has a lowermost might be considered creative (such as an
consciousness than the creatures it created. Not onlyabstract artist). But God is the Author of the concept
can it be manipulated by its creation, it can beof creativity. You can't beat that.
destroyed by its creation. This is not supernatural orThe origin of life must be supernatural. There must be
divine. That which ends up flawed must have beensomething to spark life into lifeless dirt or metal. Life,
flawed in the first place and therefore could not be aespecially consciousness, is an inexplicable mystery.
transcendent, divine Source of life or whole worlds.There might be computerized artificial intelligence, but
However the creators of Transformers did right bythere cannot be artificial life, or artificial consciousness.
pointing out the divine genius of biology. They wereComputers can do what humans tell them to do, which
smart to apply biological complexity to robots. Flesh isis a limited kind of intelligence; they might even "learn"
not terribly different from metal. Both flesh and metalto make decisions on their own one of these days. But
come from the ground. They are both made fromlife is something beyond microchips and hard drives. A
minerals. Either flesh or metal might carry around life,man who was given life cannot invent something
depending on the Creator's choice. Metal happens tobeyond life. All miraculous authority is reserved by the
be simpler... simple enough for humans to mold andDivine One, the Original, the Originator.
manipulate into machines. Machines resemble the lifeNotice how the people who deny God suppose that
God created they require creativity and deliberatelife is nothing more than complex, biological
engineering to make them work. They only lack thatmechanisms. With such a limited understanding of life a
one mysterious element that humans will never be ableman might spend his whole life welding silicon and
to conjure up on their own: Life.metal together in a vain attempt to create new life.
Any biologist who takes a minute to contemplate theirThis man might come up with a
profession will admit that life, or the origin of life, is trulymore-fancy-than-average computer, but his metal and
mysterious. Only God, who is supernatural, holy, eternalsilicon will never attain to consciousness.