85283df4-0928-4a06-b25e-a75661826d721536x1024 Type post Author William A. Dembski Date January 8, 2026 CategoriesComputational SciencesScience EducationTechnology Tagged , [Un]Intentional, 1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, dopamine, Doug Smith, education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, software, St. Paul, Substack, technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism William A. Dembski January 8, 2026 Computational Sciences, Science Education, Technology 39 Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›
Spider-Man Type post Author Peter Biles Date April 14, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , Big Science, Elon Musk, entertainment, evolution, film, movies, Neuralink, New York City, parasite, Sam Altman, Spider-Man, transhumanism Science Gone Wrong, Thanks to a Hasty Transhumanist Peter Biles April 14, 2024 Bioethics, Evolution 4 “40,000 years of evolution and we’ve barely even tapped the vastness of human potential." Read More ›
robot Type post Author William A. Dembski Date January 25, 2024 CategoriesFaith & ScienceNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, cyborgs, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, HAL 9000, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, idols, Isaiah, Leslie Zeigler, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, The Singularity is Nearer, Tower of Babel, zealotry Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction William A. Dembski January 25, 2024 Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 14 Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›
data Type post Author Peter Biles Date August 31, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , artificial intelligence, computer science, COSM, Dataism, Harvard University Press, human nature, humanism, Latin, Reductionism, Renaissance, Sam Altman, Substack, The Atlantic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wired, Yuval Harari Can Everything Be Reduced to Data? Peter Biles August 31, 2023 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 "Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›