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Artificial Intelligence & Transhumanism

AI ARTICLES AT KOMANDO.COM
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Church Related
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN EVANGELICAL STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
Most Christians think AI isn't good for the Church: study (Nov 2023)
Today’s Defining Question: What Is a Human? (Oct 2023)
ChatGPT, Will You Forgive Me? (Sep 2023)
Christians Shouldn’t Fear AI (Sep 2023)
Three Points and a Program: AI Steps into the Pulpit (Sep 2023)
There's an AI-powered app that lets users 'text' with Jesus. For $2.99 a month, you can unlock Satan. (Aug 2023)
Should We Embrace or Evict AI in Churches? (Jul 2023)
Why ChatGPT Can’t Produce Great Sermons (Jun 2023)
WEF's Terrifying New Mission: Calls for AI to Write 'Unifying New Bible,' Create Religions 'That Are Actually Correct' (Jun 2023)
Should My Church Staff Be Hesitant About Using ChatGPT? (Jun 2023)
We should teach AI bots to use the tenets of Christianity (Apr 2023)
Why Christians Should Lead the Ban on Killer Robots (Aug 2020)
The FAQS: Christians and the Moral Threat of Sex Robots (Oct 2018)
Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism and the Church: How Should Christians Respond? (Jan 2018)
Christian Transhumanism Offers an Ethical Transhumanist Alternative (Aug 2017)
Why Christians Should Embrace Transhumanism (May 2015)
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AI Enters Politics: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain (Dec 2023)
'Mika' becomes world's first AI human-like robot CEO (Nov 2023)
The rise of AI girlfriends (Oct 2023)
Does AI Threaten the Human Future? (Sep 2023)
How ‘Barbie’s’ Depiction of What It Means to Be Human Shows Hollywood’s Fear of AI (Aug 2023)
Chatbots: A hacker’s best friend (Jul 2023)
AI toys: Cool or creepy? (Jun 2023)
Grammys: Recording Academy Says Only ‘Human Creators’ Eligible to Win, No AI-Generated Songs (Jun 2023)
Deal with the Devil: ChatGPT Boss Sam Altman Calls for Collaboration with China to Counter AI Risks (Jun 2023)
‘No Soul’ -- German Church Holds Artificial Intelligence Generated Sermon (Jun 2023) | The machine god takes over (Jun 2023)
Should AI be Shut Down? (Apr 2023)
AI chatbot 'hallucinations' perpetuate political falsehoods, biases that have rewritten American history (Apr 2023)
New roadblock for AI appears, as defamation cases arise (Apr 2023)
Putin and Xi seek to weaponize Artificial Intelligence against America (Apr 2023)
AI-created malware sends shockwaves through cybersecurity world (Apr 2023)
Police are using invasive facial recognition software to put every American in a perpetual lineup (Apr 2023)
Chatbot tells man to kill himself to save planet, so he does! (Apr 2023)
It’s time to put the brakes on AI (Apr 2023)
'Potentially catastrophic': Musk, Wozniak push A.I. moratorium (Mar 2023)
Should Students Use AI for Writing Assignments? (Mar 2023)
ChatGPT, Consciousness, and the Human Mind (Mar 2023)
How Not to Be Scared of AI (Feb 2023)
TECH TIP: Be careful downloading viral portrait apps (Feb 2023)
How an AI Chatbot May Affect Gospel-Centered Ministry (Dec 2022)
When Artificial Intelligence Makes Art, What Becomes of the Artist? (Jan 2023)
Artificial Intelligence Is Not the Same as Artificial Consciousness (Aug 2022)
Did Google Create a Sentient AI or Just a Zombie? (Jul 2022)
AI Cannot Fill the Loneliness Void (Apr 2022)
The Simulation Hypothesis: A Materialist Spirituality? (Jul 2021)
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (May 2021)
The Void No Robot Can Fill (Feb 2021)
Our World Wants to Transcend Aging. Christians Should Embrace It. (Nov 2019)
The Rise of Transhumanism (Jul 2019) | Transhumanism's Assumptions and their Implications (Jul 2019)
Transhumanism Is Yet Another Temptation to Play God (Jun 2019)
Why Big Tech Struggles with Ethics (May 2019)
The FAQs: What Christians Should Know About Artificial Intelligence (Apr 2019)
Why Robot Commercials Creep Us Out (Feb 2019)
How to Brave the Wild Technological Future (Jan 2019)
New Year, New You? The Allure of Transhumanism (Jan 2019)
What Happens When Robots Take Our Jobs? Automation and the Dignity of Work (Jun 2018)
Should You Get Into a Self-Driving Car? (May 2018)
Google Director's Push for Computers Inside Human Brains Is 'Anti-Christ,' 'Human Rights Abuse,' Theologians Explain (Mar 2017)
Transhumanist Seeks Eternal Life With Blood of Youth Rather Than Blood of Christ (Mar 2017)

Biotechnology & Bioethics

ASSISTED SUICIDE & EUTHANASIA
(Also see: DEATH / DYING)

Alarming scheme to sedate patients to obtain assisted suicide consent (Nov 2023)
Ethics council members warn lawmakers against euthanasia (Oct 2023)
Canada’s Suicidal Slide (Aug 2023)
How Both “Death With Dignity” and Nazi Propaganda Redefine Compassion (Jul 2023)
European nation euthanizing autistic and intellectually handicapped people (Jun 2023)
Homeless in Canada? 1 in 3 Canadians Say You Should Be Allowed Assisted Suicide (May 2023)
Why Avoiding Suffering at All Cost Undermines Compassion and Medicine (May 2023)
Doctor-Assisted Suicide for Anorexia? (May 2023)
Suicide rates higher in countries that legalized euthanasia, assisted suicide: study (Nov 2022)
In Canada, Euthanasia for “Mature” Minors? (Aug 2022)
Doctor Assisted Suicide is No Slippery Slope, It's a Moral Cliff (Feb 2022)
Implant promoted to seniors as being 'instantly fatal' (Aug 2021)
The Dangerous Appeal of "Death with Dignity" (May 2021)
Belgium warned its euthanasia law is 'spiraling out of control' as 'hundredfold' more are killed (May 2021)
5 global developments in euthanasia, assisted suicide laws in 2020 (Dec 2020)
Dutch Euthanasia Doctor Warns Britain Against . . . Euthanasia (Sep 2020)
Assisted Suicide for the Healthy: Just How Slippery Is This Slope? (Aug 2020)
When Suicide is Legal and the Money Runs Out: An Evil and Unnecessary "Choice" (Sep 2019)
Fighting Assisted Suicide, Jersey Style: A Jewish Doctor Says "No" (Aug 2019)
In the Debate Over Physician-Assisted Suicide, Words Matter (Oct 2018)
The Deadly Canadian "M.A.I.D.": The Expansion of Assisted Suicide North of the Border (Oct 2018)
Second Thoughts on Assisted Suicide: Canadian Doctors Balk (Mar 2017)
Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting: A Ghoulish -- but not Surprising -- Proposal (Feb 2017)
How Would You Like To Die? (Sep 2016)

GENE EDITING

How Hopeful Gene Editing Tech Fails with Broken Philosophy (May 2021) (What Would You Say? video)
Inventors of CRISPR Win Nobel Prize, but Should We "Rewrite the Code of Life?" (Oct 2020)
International Panel Warns Us to Tap the Brakes on Gene Editing, but That Won't Stop Us (Sep 2020)
More Evidence of the Dangers of CRISPR: Stop Playing God with Human Genes (Jun 2020)
Hit Pause on Gene Editing: Time for the Administration to Act (Jan 2020)
Playing God with Our Genes: An Existential Threat (Dec 2019)

STEM CELL RESEARCH

Making Mice with Two Fathers: Science Is Never Value Neutral (Mar 2023)
Our Tax Dollars Still Fund the Destruction of Embryos -- And There's not a Single Good Reason Why (Oct 2020)
Stem Cells, Cloning, & Human Embryos: Understanding the Ethics & Opportunity of Scientific Research (pdf) (2013)
Stem Cell Research and "Respecting" the Embryo (Oct 2005)
Stem Cell Research Facts (website)

OTHER

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Creation vs. Evolution (with some Atheism thrown in for good measure)

Science Uprising (BreakPoint article)

ANSWERS IN GENESIS: The New Answers Book 1 (click to show/hide)

Albert Mohler articles (click to show/hide)

Baptist Press articles (click to show/hide)

Bible.org articles (click to show/hide)

Series

Creative Science (Aug 2011)

Articles

Creation & Evolution (Feb 2015)
God, Evolution, and Morality: Part 1 (May 2014) | Part 2 (Jul 2014)
Is God Real? The Bacterial Flagellum and the Divine Design Inference (Apr 2014)
Darwin on Trial (Mar 2012)
A Darwinian View of Life (Mar 2012)
The Grand Canyon and the Age of the Earth (Mar 2012)
Are We Alone in the Universe? (Jun 2010)
The Impotence of Darwinism (Aug 2009)
Sociobiology: Evolution, Genes and Morality (Aug 2009)
Why We Believe in Creation (Aug 2009)
he Human Race: Its Creation, History, and Destiny: The Creation of Man (Jan 2008)
The Evolution Revolution: Naturalism and the Question of Origins (Mar 2006)
Genesis 1-2 In Light Of Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths (Apr 2005)
Darwinism and New England Theology (Jul 2004)
The Gap Theory of Genesis Chapter One: A Layman's Critical Appraisal (May 2004)

The Gospel Coalition articles (click to show/hide)

Let the Big Bang Argue for God’s Existence (Sep 2023)
Study the Stars and the Starmaker (Feb 2023)
The Problems with Neo-Darwinism (Feb 2023)
9 Proofs You’re More Than Matter (Jan 2023)
4 Things Creation Teaches Us About God (Aug 2022)
The Secular Denial of Evolution (Apr 2022)
What Your Biology Teacher Didn't Tell You About Charles Darwin (APR 2017)
4 Simple Responses to Science-Based Atheism (Dec 2015)
Theological Triage and the Doctrine of Creation (Oct 2015)
The Two Guys to Blame for the Myth of Constant Warfare between Religion and Science (Feb 2015)
Biblical Reasons to Doubt the Creation Days Were 24-Hour Periods (Jan 2015)
5 Scientific Problems with Current Theories of Biological and Chemical Evolution (Jan 2015)
Four Views on the Historical Adam (Jul 2014)
Does God Live in the Gaps? (Feb 2014)
9 Things You Should Know About the Scopes Monkey Trial (Jul 2013)
Can Life Have Meaning Without God? (Jul 2013)
Darwin's Doubt: An Interview with Stephen C. Meyer (May 2013)
The Loss of Historical Adam and the Death of Exegesis (May 2013)
What's Wrong with Theistic Evolution? (Apr 2012)
If the Apostle Paul Believed in the Historical Adam, Must We? (Feb 2012)
10 Reasons to Believe in a Historical Adam (Feb 2012)
Sinned in a Literal Adam, Raised in a Literal Christ (Jun 2011)
How Did the Church Interpret the Days of Creation Before Darwin? (Feb 2011)
B. B. Warfield on Creation and Evolution (Jul 2010)

SBC LIFE articles (click to show/hide)

Famed Atheist Sees Evidence for God (Feb 2005)
Is Evolution True? (Feb 2003)
The Fraternity Of Hollow Men (Sep 2002)
Politically Correct Bigotry: Narrow-mindedness Targets the Christian Right (Aug 2000)
Unraveling the Myth of Evolution: Classroom Victory in the Battle for Truth (Oct 1999)
Intelligent Design Theory: A Powerful Tool in Confronting Darwinism (Feb 1998)
New Challenges to Evolutionary Dogma (Jan 1998)
Darwin on Trial (Oct 1997)

Other articles & resources (click to show/hide)

It's Not Brain Surgery ... Oh Wait, it is
SCIENCE UPRISING (video series)
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Darwinizing the Universe: A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing (Nov 2023)
Which Theory of Evolution? Toppling the Idol of “Settled Science” (Aug 2023)
Of Primates and Percentages: No, Humans Aren’t 99% Chimp (Mar 2023)
Is evolution really 'science'? (Feb 2023)
Which Theory of Evolution? Toppling the Idol of “Settled Science” (Aug 2022)
God Is Beyond and Behind the Enormous Universe (Jul 2022)
Intelligent Design without God? (Nov 2021)
Is Darwinian Evolution Running Out of Time? (Aug 2021)
The True Origin of the Species (Jul 2021)
Three Scientific Discoveries that Call for a God Hypothesis (May 2021)
Evolution Evangelists Skirt Evidence, Commemorate Darwin's Descent of Man (May 2021)
Why the Idea of Human Exceptionalism Ruffles Feathers (Nov 2020)
Intelligent Design Passes Peer Review: Life Is Fine-Tuned (Oct 2020)
Adam and Eve Are Possible: A Second Bite at the Genetic Apple (Nov 2019)
Remembering Phillip Johnson: The Man Who Put Darwin on Trial (Nov 2019)
A Marvel of (Intelligent) Design: A Biological Rotary Engine (Sep 2019)
Science cannot bury God but it can bury atheism: John Lennox (May 2019)
1,000 Scientists go public with doubts on evolution (Feb 2019)
Atheist group warns over 1,000 school districts not to take kids to Ark Encounter; Ken Ham responds (Jan 2019)
What Was Darwin's 'Original' Thought? (Feb 2018)
The New Theistic Evolutionists: BioLogos and the Rush to Embrace the "Consensus" (May 2017)
Atheists, skeptics flock to see … the Ark! (Oct 2016)
Atheism: Hopeless, Meaningless, Purposeless (Sep 2016)
Has Science Got Rid of God? (Aug 2008)
Atheism: An Irrational Worldview (Oct 2007)

Global Warming / Climate ~~Change~~ ~~Disruption~~ ~~Crisis~~ Change / Weather

Baptist Press articles (click to show/hide)

Climate change critics perceive threat from AGs (Apr 2016)
Climate change accord draws concern for poor (Dec 2015)
Evangelicals: Pope's proposals likely to hurt poor (Jul 2015)
The environment -- Why be concerned? (Apr 2015)
Climate change faces reality check (Sep 2013)
The tide turning on global warming 'alarmism'? (Jul 2012)
Global warming propaganda from Scholastic? (Aug 2011)
'Energygate,' the latest global warming scandal (Jun 2011)
The real goal of the climate conference? (Dec 2010)
The meltdown of Global Warming alarmism (Mar 2010)
Global warming alarmism falling apart in light of 'Climategate' and IPCC errors (Jan 2010)
Global warming alarmism 'fails the tests,' scholars say (Dec 2009)
ERLC leaders oppose bill to cap emissions (Mar 2008)
A global flashback (May 2007)
Letter asks NAE to rethink 'green' activism (Mar 2007)
Coalition of more than 100 evangelicals presents alternative on global warming (Jul 2006)

The Gospel Coalition articles (click to show/hide)

Who Is to Blame for the Greatest Myth in the History of Science and Religion? These Two Guys (Feb 2017)
Beyond Christian Environmentalism: Ecotheology as an Over-Contextualized Theology (Dec 2015)
Bill Nye and the Challenge of Inspiring Specks of Dust (Jun 2015)
An Evangelical's Guide to 'Laudato Si', Pope Francis's Encyclical on the Environment (Jun 2015)
Why Christians Should Support Earth Day (Apr 2015)
Building a Better Earth Day (Apr 2014)
What Questions Should Christians Ask about Global Warming? (Jul 2010)
True North: Christ, the Gospel, and Creation Care (2012?)
The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation (2010?)
Green Is Not the Gospel (Sep 2010)
Thinking Green -- The New Religion (Jan 2010)
Climategate 101 (Dec 2009)
The Malthusians Strike Back (Oct 2009)

Other articles & resources (click to show/hide)

The Internet & Related Technology

SOCIAL MEDIA & BIG TECH

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THE METAVERSE

Why ministering in the metaverse is the ‘Netflix of evangelism’ (May 2022)
The Church in the Metaverse (Feb 2022)
How to Prepare for the Metaverse (Nov 2021)

OTHER

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Other

MARIJUANA

New Studies Show Marijuana Use Increases Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke (Nov 2023)
More Studies Show the Harm of Recreational Marijuana Use (Jun 2023)
Why Christians Should Oppose Marijuana Legalization (Oct 2022)
The Link Between Marijuana, Psychosis, and Suicide (Jun 2020)
Should Followers of Christ Use Recreational Marijuana? (Jan 2020)
What's Wrong with the Weed Biz? It Harms People (Jan 2020)
Marijuana and Psychosis: Real Data, Real Bad (Dec 2019)
The Dangers of Legalized Weed (Jan 2019)
Is It a Sin to Smoke Pot? (Dec 2018)
9 Things You Should Know About the Health Effects of Marijuana (Jan 2017)
Is Recreational Marijuana Use a Sin? (Jan 2014)

THE OPIOID CRISIS

9 Things You Should Know About the Opioid Epidemic (Aug 2016)
America's Epidemic: How Opioid Addicts Find Help in the Church (Aug 2017)
9 (More) Things You Should Know About the Opioid Epidemic (Mar 2018)
How to Love Opioid Addicts in Your Community -- and Church (Feb 2019)

OTHER / MORE

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