Is Christianity the Best Religion for an AI Sim World?
A game developer makes the caseBeing a game developer renders Virk vulnerable to missing the parts of Christianity that don’t feel like a game at all.
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Understanding the State of Afterlife Bliss
It’s certainly not an eternity playing harps while sitting on a cloudC.S. Lewis said: “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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A Philosopher Looks At the Roots of Modern Panpsychism
I’ve argued for years that panpsychism — the belief that everything is conscious — is slowly replacing materialism in science. There’s a logical reason for thatA gambler would be wise to bet on eliminative materialism collapsing before panpsychism, which has its roots much deeper in the history of the mind.
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Are They Nuts Down in the Valley? Or Just Pretending?
Preaching the machine god apocalypse sounds a bit much when the real problem is serious security lapsesIn addition to the Doomers, there is the AI rights crowd, worried that we will reduce intelligent AI agents to slavery.
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It’s Been 20 Years Now: The Debate with New Atheists Is Over
And opposition did not Cancel them. The evidence from nature didAs Steven Meyer shows, lines of evidence from cosmology, physics, and molecular biology point to a designing mind behind nature.
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God and Mind Over Matter During Human Pain
If epiphenomenalism were true, then Solzhenitsyn would have remained on the ground like a crashed carCan God ease or irradicate the suffering, both physical and mental, of some human beings on Earth if they pray for it or have ‘Road to Damascus’ moment?
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What Goes on in the Mind of a Suicidal Priest?
Suicidal ideation amongst priests could possibly be linked, amongst other things, to theological illiteracyIn a recent report during Men’s Mental Health Week, The Irish Catholic newspaper quoted a parish priest who said: “Priests are not immune to mental health struggles.” Priests are not immune to mental health struggles, PP says during Men’s Mental Health Week – The Irish Catholic Fr Michael Toomey, of St Carlo Acutis Parish Pastoral Area in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, said in a homily: Over the past number of years here in Ireland and around the world, and as recently as earlier this year in our own area, priests have died by suicide… There is a tendency to place priests on a pedestal [*this was surely the case prior to 1990, but not currently], expecting them to Read More ›
Anglican Church of Canada: Pastoral Liturgies Blessing Euthanasia
This will be of no consequence to those who are not believers. But for Christians throughout history, blessing euthanasia would be a most profound scandalThe earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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Most Christian Innovators Have Not Read the Pope’s Letter
The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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The Pope Just Weighed In On AI
If your religious organization doesn’t yet have a theology of AI, start building one because the conversation is already happening without youThe question isn’t whether AI will harm us. The question is actually whether we will remain human.
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Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson
A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creatorA noxious racist, citing supposed genetic evidence of African racial inferiority, Watson’s work with DNA suggests that human beings can’t in fact be reduced to “genes.”
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Kids and Chatbots: How Dissenting Views Got Me Disinvited
As a lifelong software engineer, I am an insider on a topic like this and I know that their programming makes them unsuitable for childrenI also believe that their programmed tendency to lead to addictive relationships makes them unsuitable for adults as well but that’s another topic.
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Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots As a Force For Good? Part 2
The claims being made for what these bots can do for ministry would lead us into dangerous territoryWe need to remember what Christian thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Marshall McLuhan have thought and said about technology-driven utopias.
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Pure Unlimited Love: Faith, Freedom, and the Path to Peace
To illustrate the nature of the qualities needed, Dr. Post shared with Dr. Egnor a moving story from his time working in a geriatric psychiatric hospital in Mount Vernon, OhioDr. Egnor agreed, observing that the United States seems to be losing its ability to hold respectful disagreement. Post responded by quoting Abraham Lincoln’s call for unity
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Maturing Toward God: An Update from Charles Murray
It’s significant that the rethinking, in this and other cases, was prompted by evidence from scienceKlinghoffer notes that the question, “Why there is something rather than nothing?” is also addressed in the new video, “Proof of God in 3 Minutes.”
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At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…
Not THIS again, you say? Yes, this again. Straight out of the 1970s, as if the last fifty years of research never happenedOne effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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Change: Charles Murray Finds Out That He Does Need God
This growing interest in religion is a trend. It is all coming too close together to just be an accident of timing.Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted.
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On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Flew Out the Window
Why did atheists, in charge of science during the last few decades, yield the floor to irrational forces?Science itself is being deplatformed by Woke relativism, developed by the very people who found atheists quite thought-provoking and fashionable.
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Reviewer Asks: Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?
Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book, God, the Science, the Evidence, raises a stark questionWhy are we asked to discredit the evidence of fine-tuning of the universe? Why is such an antirealist message coming from science?
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French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen
But, as materialism wanes and religion slowly revives, will many scientists find panpsychism more attractive?Something has changed if the magic word “Evolution!” cannot be used to paper over vast improbabilities and silence dissenters in the way that it has for over a century.
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