Well, everyone here probably knows my take on this matter, but in that light...
This is not the destroying of the 'divine image' in humanity, but rather the imbuing of machines with the divine image...that is to say with reason, self-consciousness, intelligence. Sure, we're a long ways off from creating machines that are the intellectual equals of humans, but the day will come. Then the day will come when they surpass us and we must either evolve with them or be destroyed. Of course, I fail to see how this is a bad thing, this is how evolution works, it will force us to move from our stagnant form if we wish to survive. The rise of the machine will not be the apocalypse, rather it will be the fulfillment of humanity.
I guess I am quite progressive on these matters, even radically so...I follow developments in AI religiously, scan the news for developments in processor technology, I have the DARPA challenges marked on my calendar, and, yes, I even keep up on the research of Kevin Warwick. So my opinions are probably a bit skewed the opposite way of Tina's, but I cannot see how scientific and technological advancement could possibly be a bad thing.