Towards the end of my earlier article, “Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create the Physical World?” I said: The development of complex, rational, spiritually aware beings under material-universe conditions is a long, complex task that had to…
Towards the end of my earlier article, “Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create the Physical World?” I said: The development of complex, rational, spiritually aware beings under material-universe conditions is a long, complex task that had to…
In a recent comment, a reader named K asked me to respond to this article: “Why You Probably Don’t Have Free Will,” by Jack Maden. Here is the article’s opening synopsis: “Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris argues that free will…
It’s a staple of science fiction. 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Terminator; The Matrix; I, Robot. The plot: Humans create machines with artificial intelligence (AI). The machines become conscious. The machines turn on their human creators and kill or enslave…