Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not, and Will Never Be, Conscious ❧ ✦ ❧ The Clockwork and the Clock On October 19, 2026, Religion Unplugged published an analysis by John Mac Ghlionn under a title built to stop the scroll: “AI Might Be Conscious. If So, God Help Us.” The piece closes with a genuinely memorable…
Category: Science versus Faith
Formed to Be Inhabited: Why Earth Is No Cosmic Accident
Where Were You When I Laid the Foundations of the Earth? Cosmic Collisions, Missing Witnesses, and the God Who Was There ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Planet No One Watched Being Born Picture the scene as many textbooks now paint it. A young, glowing Earth is spinning through a crowded, violent solar system. A wandering…
The Silence of Infinite Spaces: The Vast Universe, the Infinite God, and the Limits of Human Knowing
A Philosophical and Theological Essay ❦ ❖ ❦ I. The Terror and the Question More than three centuries ago, the mathematician and Christian apologist Blaise Pascal set down a confession that has haunted every thoughtful reader since: the eternal silence of the infinite spaces frightened him. He was not a man given to fright. He…
No Body, No Soul: The Fatal Flaw in the AI Consciousness Fantasy
Image: An AI-generated image imagines that somewhere in the not-too-distant future, “The Ghost in the Machine” will be found among the server racks that contain nearly all the information ever recorded. It will finally think, feel, and experience the world just like its human coding engineers, going all the way back to the development of…
The Enigmatic Dance of Faith and Transcendence: Seeking Meaning in the Unknowable
Image: Concept of science and faith locked in battle, or harmony, depending on one’s perspective. Creator: Kagenmi | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto As sentient beings, humans possess an innate desire to seek meaning and purpose in their existence. This quest for understanding often leads us to contemplate the existence of an unknowable realm, an abstract belief…