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Futuristic AI robot in priest attire stands inside church and preaching. Setting combines traditional religious elements with advanced technology, showcasing unique blend of past and future.

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
April 24, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Religion

Tagged
AI, Catholicism, Chatbot, ChatGPT, Christianity, father justin, llm, religion, Twitter}

Father Justin, a Chatbot, is Absolving Sinners

_{Critics are calling for the AI priest to be "taken down immediately."} _{Peter Biles

April 24, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Religion}

Catholic Answers is a “media ministry that serves Christ by explaining and defending the Catholic faith,” according to their description on X. For Catholic observers, it serves as a good resource for deepening one’s faith and finding clarification on certain Catholic doctrines. However, the site recently introduced a controversial new member to the team: Father Justin, a chatbot “priest” designed to help answer people’s questions about Catholicism. In defense of this AI app, Catholic Answers said, As a leading Catholic apostolate, Catholic Answers is committed to leveraging the latest technologies to advance its mission of explaining and defending the Catholic faith. The Father Justin app is the latest example of this commitment, providing a new and appealing way for searchers Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 26, 2023

Categorized
Evolution, Philosophy of Mind, Religion

Tagged
Ann Gauger, Blaise Pascal, Catholicism, Catholicism and Darwinism, Darwinism, G. K. Chesterton, God's Grandeur (Discovery Institute Press 2023)), H. G. Wells, Hilaire Belloc, Scott Ventureyra, The Everlasting Man (book 1925)}

New Book Looks at Design in Nature From a Catholic Viewpoint

_{Catholic thinkers who reject Darwinism don’t focus so much on its claims about universal common descent as on its utter inability to account coherently for the human mind} _{Denyse O'Leary

November 26, 2023

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Evolution, Philosophy of Mind, Religion}

n Chapter 10, Scott Ventureyra points out that, paradoxically, our weakness and capacity for sin makes us nobler than the countless life forms that cannot sin. Read More ›

Stained glass collage of stores from the Bible

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
September 17, 2023

Categorized
Transhumanism

Tagged
AI, Catholicism, Christianity, First Things, Medievalism, science, transhumanism, Vox, Wesley J. Smith}

AI as Refashioned Religion

_{How AI fits into the transhumanist utopian dream, and where that dream might have come from} _{Peter Biles

September 17, 2023

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Transhumanism}

AI's greatest threat may not be its sophistication, but our own over-reliance on it. As a technology, it has its uses and benefits. As a religion, it fails. Read More ›

Conceptual art, concept of problem mind psychology freedom and solution, surreal painting, jigsaw puzzle on human head.

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
March 8, 2023

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Catholicism, Consciousness, Darwin, Evolution, free will, Materialism, Matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, reason}

Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

_{Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither are generated by material processes} _{Michael Egnor

March 8, 2023

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Philosophy of Mind}

Kenneth Miller is a biologist at Brown University who has been very active in his written and vocal support for Darwin’s theory of evolution. He’s neither a materialist nor an atheist – he is a Catholic, and in being one of the rare Darwinists who doesn’t subscribe wholeheartedly to the materialist/atheist paradigm, he allows himself to be used as a token theist by the Darwinists. It helps his career, no doubt, but doesn’t advance the truth. Not an admirable place to be. Miller’s New Book and What it Misses In his 2018 book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved To Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will, Miller manages a feat uncommon even for Darwinists – even the title of the Read More ›

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Author
Jay Richards
Date
March 22, 2020

Categorized
Business and Finance, Ethics, Religion

Tagged
Catholicism, Featured, Microsoft, Pontifical Academy for Life, Regulatory capture, Vatican}

Why Does the Vatican Need Microsoft?

_{Should the Church really partner with IBM and Microsoft to make pronouncements on tech regulation?} _{Jay Richards

March 22, 2020

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Business and Finance, Ethics, Religion}

When giant corporate actors like IBM and Microsoft promote “transparency and compliance with ethical principles?”, we run the risk that they are helping to craft regulations that hinder future competitors (“regulatory capture”). Rather than partner with them in making statements, the Church should stay clear.

Tech Entrepreneur Peter Thiel says Silicon Valley is losing its touch

_{Peter Thiel also compared universities today to the Catholic Church at its worst} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 23, 2019

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Religion, Work}

About the Big Tech companies, he says, “The story is not that they have done a lot of bad things but that they have not done enough good things. That remains the core challenge of Silicon Valley.”

Are Robot Pastors the Answer to Religion’s Decline?

_{Many Christians say no. Some Buddhists say yes. What is expected of the pastor?} _{News

September 30, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Religion}

Perhaps it comes down to what we believe is the ultimate reality and what we expect from that ultimate reality. Read More ›