| Movie Prologue: "Before time began, there was the | | | | and omnipotent, could invent this. Do you see how |
| Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it | | | | creative 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 a | | | | biology for that matter. He also decided that we should |
| supernatural life-source, or "All-Spark." This is flawed | | | | have 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 human | | | | which did not previously exist. We mortals can only |
| mind, which proves that a human came up with it. The | | | | come up with revised versions of the reality that |
| All-Spark is also flawed because its vulnerable to the | | | | already exists. Someone who twists reality better than |
| same creatures it created. It has a lower | | | | most might be considered creative (such as an |
| consciousness than the creatures it created. Not only | | | | abstract artist). But God is the Author of the concept |
| can it be manipulated by its creation, it can be | | | | of creativity. You can't beat that. |
| destroyed by its creation. This is not supernatural or | | | | The origin of life must be supernatural. There must be |
| divine. That which ends up flawed must have been | | | | something to spark life into lifeless dirt or metal. Life, |
| flawed in the first place and therefore could not be a | | | | especially 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 by | | | | there cannot be artificial life, or artificial consciousness. |
| pointing out the divine genius of biology. They were | | | | Computers can do what humans tell them to do, which |
| smart to apply biological complexity to robots. Flesh is | | | | is a limited kind of intelligence; they might even "learn" |
| not terribly different from metal. Both flesh and metal | | | | to make decisions on their own one of these days. But |
| come from the ground. They are both made from | | | | life 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 to | | | | beyond life. All miraculous authority is reserved by the |
| be simpler... simple enough for humans to mold and | | | | Divine One, the Original, the Originator. |
| manipulate into machines. Machines resemble the life | | | | Notice how the people who deny God suppose that |
| God created they require creativity and deliberate | | | | life is nothing more than complex, biological |
| engineering to make them work. They only lack that | | | | mechanisms. With such a limited understanding of life a |
| one mysterious element that humans will never be able | | | | man 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 their | | | | This man might come up with a |
| profession will admit that life, or the origin of life, is truly | | | | more-fancy-than-average computer, but his metal and |
| mysterious. Only God, who is supernatural, holy, eternal | | | | silicon will never attain to consciousness. |