From Artificial Gods to the Natural God: The Unfinished Revolution of Human Civilization — The Unification of Science, Religion, and Cosmic Order

Contemporary human civilization is undergoing a profound yet concealed crisis of belief. On the surface, this appears to be an era of advanced science and declining religion. At a deeper civilizational level, however, religion has not disappeared; rather, it has transformed into invisible forms embedded within science, technology, institutions, and ideologies. This paper argues that the fundamental crisis of modern civilization lies not in scientific failure or technological excess, but in a misalignment of cosmic belief structures. By tracing the genealogy of artificial gods—from anthropomorphic deities to institutional authority and modern secular idols such as scientism, technological omnipotence, and capital mythology—this study reveals that so-called “disenchantment” is in fact an unrecognized transference of sacralization. While the scientific revolution dismantled traditional religious authority, it failed to achieve genuine decentering, instead unconsciously constructing new sacred centers. Furthermore, this paper contends that the transition from geocentrism to heliocentrism did not complete the civilizational revolution; it merely replaced one center with another. The unfinished revolution lies in the shift from artificial gods to the Natural Dao—moving away from personalized, authoritarian, and teleological divinity toward a cosmic order grounded in natural generation. The Natural Dao is not an object of worship but a philosophical naming of cosmic generative order. The future of civilization depends not on the absence of belief, but on the maturation of belief—one that is non-anthropocentric, non-authoritarian, and free from apocalyptic narratives. Such a transformation provides a new cosmic foundation for science, ethics, and civilizational self-restraint. 当代人类文明正处于一场深层而隐蔽的信仰危机之中。表面上，这是一个科学高度发达、宗教逐渐退场的时代；但在更深层的文明结构中，宗教并未消失，而是以隐形形态持续存在，并深度嵌入科学、技术、制度与意识形态之中。本文指出，人类文明的根本危机并非科学失败或技术失控，而是宇宙信仰结构的根本错位。 通过系统梳理从人格神、制度神到现代“科学—技术—资本”伪神的演化谱系，本文揭示：所谓现代文明的“去神化”，实则是一次未被自觉的“造神转移”。科学革命虽然摧毁了传统宗教权威，却未能完成真正的去中心化，反而在无意识中制造了新的神圣中心。 本文进一步提出，“地心说—日心说”的转变并非文明革命的终点，而只是中心幻觉的阶段性更替。真正尚未完成的革命，是从“人造神”向“自然神”的转向——即从人格化、权威化、目的论的神性结构，转向以自然生成秩序为核心的“道法自然”宇宙观。 本文主张：自然神并非宗教信仰对象，而是对宇宙生成秩序的哲学命名；文明的未来，不在于无神，而在于回归非人类中心、非权力化、非末世论的自然信仰结构。这一转向，将为科学、伦理与文明自我约束提供新的宇宙基础。