Why AI Won’t Replace Us Spiritually

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AI systems increasingly resemble human intelligence. But resemblance alone does not make them image bearers. It cannot. AI systems do not represent God. Source
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No. 3 Story for 2025: Immaterial Genome Is Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

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Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Source
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Richard Dawkins, the Unlikely Evangelist

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As a recent book of essays demonstrates, the once much-vaunted new atheism spurred many thinking people to become Christians. Source
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Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

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Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. Source
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Human Rights and the Image of God

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Source
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Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

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Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Source
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

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Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Source
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West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

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Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Source
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