Belief in "the singularity" is not required. There is no single singularity. They have already been happening many many times in human history and there will be more in the future. From stone tools, to farming, all the way to the most recent one, the PC and internet. All a singularity is, is a new technology that changes our lives in ways we cannot predict. No one could have possibly predicted the impact the PC would have on our lives. I assume that you are really talking about the artificial intelligence singularity. We know intelligence is physically possible, otherwise we wouldn't be here on the internet discussing these issues. We also have pretty good models for predicting the future of certain technologies. If you used Moore's law in the 70-80's to predict where processing power would be at this moment in time, you would get something pretty accurate, however inconceivable it may seem at the time. My first PC was 66 Mhz, now I have a dual core 1.2 Ghz phone in my pocket with capabilities that I would have thought to be magic not too long ago. CPUs capable of performing human tasks are already here. Look at IBMs Watson. They didn't even need to know how the brain works. Eventually some technology will come along that will reveal the structure of the brain, but it's completely possible that human level AI will be here long before that.

I find this post WAY off base. I will just address his points in order. A 3D setup is no more expensive than a 2D setup. Sometime around 2005 I bought my first HDTV (a 42 inch 720p LG) for $2k. It was just below top of the line. In January of 2011 I bought a 55 inch Panasonic 3D TV, 3D blu-ray player, 2 3D glasses, and a new audio receiver to handle all the new HDMI connections. ALL FOR UNDER THE SAME PRICE OF MY FIRST TV!! The content is in no way paltry, at least in my experience. Watching Tron and Avatar in 3D with my setup just blows away anyone that I have shown it to. I have found that the best 3D movies are usually entirely made with CGI because any object on the screen can be looked at and be in focus, which is not currently possible 2D or 3D live action. My experience with watching 3D at home is at least equal to, if not better than watching it in the theater. The depth and clarity at home is virtually identical. Just a side note, but a lot of people skip out on setting up a good audio system. To me, this is what gives my setup the theater experience. I think people have this expectation that if they get a 3D TV that they will be watching everything in 3D. That will most certainly give you a head-ache and that would get annoying pretty quick. This won't happen until glasses free sets are available. In it's current state, with having to use glasses, 3D is best with movies that you are going to focus your entire attention to. And not every movie is appropriate in the 3D format. The 3D has to add to the experience. I watch a 3D movie maybe once a month if that, and maybe a 3D special on satellite on occasion. That's enough for me and it is still totally worth it. Also, you will get the most out of a 3D movie if you aren't tired. I find if I am tired, my eyes get strained and I just don't get the same experience. Yes 3D has been tried in the past and failed. It was very much a novelty in the past because you had to wear colored glasses that sacrificed the color quality of the movie. No one making a serious film would use 3D, and no one would watch it. Today, 3D does not do this. This is why big blockbuster films are coming out in 3D. It's here to stay! In fact today's 3D DOUBLES (except for passive 3D TVs, the TVs that use glasses with out batteries) the amount of visual information you get. Each eye gets a different perspective at the same frame rate.

Only those who don't understand what an intelligent designer actually is, may make this argument. An intelligent designer creates from the top down. Meaning that all species were created in the form you see and can never deviate from that form. Evolution works the other way, from the bottom up. So the fact that there are different dog breeds at all, is evidence that species can change given the proper environment. Humans simply gave nature a little nudge. They would also be making a giant assumption that any human activity is "unnatural". Even if we are "chosen" in some sort of way by a silent intelligent creator, we still obey all the same laws that everything else does in nature. Also we didn't one day just decide to create a chihuahua from scratch, it took hundreds if not thousands of years of breeding. It could even be a possible, if not likely, that the first guy that started the breeding process didn't even know what the end result would be. Taking the whole intelligence part out of this equation.