>"Evolution creates structures and patterns that over time are more complicated, more knowledgable, more creative, more capable of expressing higher sentiments, like being loving," he said. "It’s moving in the direction of qualities that God is described as having without limit."

>"So as we evolve, we become closer to God. Evolution is a spiritual process. There is beauty and love and creativity and intelligence in the world — it all comes from the neocortex. So we’re going to expand the brain’s neocortex and become more godlike."

Sounds like he's referring to the potential of the uploaded mind and not physical power over the universe.

The difference is* God made it (the universe). We're just getting the ability to manipulate it. We'll have some godlike powers, but still not be God ourselves. Maybe demigods would be a better description.

*If you believe that someone had to have created all that is.