Tolkien called this idea “sub-creation,” suggesting that only God could create, in the complete sense of the word. But that humans, being made in God’s image, would by their nature strive to create. Anything we create uses what God gave us and would therefore be a lesser order of creation, thus sub-creation.

A step further and we can see the hubris in some religious ideas about not using manmade stuff because we’re “playing god”. If God didn’t want us to have it, we wouldn’t have it. That cancer treatment or dialysis is god sending you the help you prayed for.

Is he holding a christingle or sputnik?

At some point God might say “I don’t know if I can make it better than this, but I’ll give it a try if you’ll help me out.”

You think the guy that made open ai made everything it’ll come up with?

What? Most religious dogma is predicated upon free will, meaning we are capable of rearranging things according to our own machinations.

It would be like bacteria in a petri dish reorganising and reproducing, but it’s still creation in a sense separated from the creator.

If God exists, and God owns everything, does that mean that I’m shitting God’s pants?