God, subtitled A Comedy in One Act, is a play by Woody Allen. It was first published in 1975. Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ...
God explains the rules to Bruce in a second meeting, after he has played around with his unbelievable powers for a while: 1) he should not tell anyone that he is God, and 2) he cannot go beyond human free will.
God answers: "Welcome to my world, son; if you come up with an answer to that one, you let me know." This is the first moment that Bruce realizes the limits to his powers.
God is absent, for example, in these movies, and humans do take over God's role, but their relationship to animals is very different.
The different realms God is said to have exclusive rights over have been anything involving when someone might die or come into being, any way to affect the characteristics of someone as they come into being, and other issues related to life and death.
The "playingGod" argument has ceased to be a moral argument itself, as it was supposed to be.
Simply saying something is playingGod adds nothing to the discussion and really does seem to me to be mere rhetoric, unless it's a point about our limited knowledge, which can effectively be made without using such unclear terminology.
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