The article states:
"Would intelligent robots be religious?" it occurs to me to ask.
"Perhaps they would," he answers thoughtfully. "Although, if they were intelligent enough to evaluate their own programming, they would eventually question their belief in God."
But the robots would be wrong wouldn’t they? After all, robots do have a creator.
I came to Christianity as an adult, after graduating from MIT. I didn’t arrive at religion because of problems in my life. On the contrary, I had a great job and a beautiful girlfriend. I came to religion because I could no longer tolerate the anti-intellectualism of atheism.
Carl Sagan famously said “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”. But for atheists, no amount of proof is enough. If Jesus appeared on their doorstep today, they would dismiss it later as a hallucination. I realized that if I didn’t objectively consider the evidence for God, then my conclusion has already been made. So I decided to research Christianity as I would any other topic. I didn’t look for divine inspiration from a church choir (as Gary, the author, seemed to). I wanted to find if there was hard evidence for God.
I notice that Gary didn’t mention Christian apologetics (The defense of the Christian faith on intellectual grounds). He can start his research by reading Josh McDowell or CS Lewis. He can also try praying. I would also suggest he study the Christian New Testament Gospels. When I did that, I realized that many anti-Christian texts often misquote the Bible to make their point.
An intellectual must be objective and consider the evidence from all sides. A free thinker sides with the evidence regardless of his prior beliefs. Taking atheism on faith is not science – it’s just a different religion. True agnostics should look at the evidence and draw their own conclusions.
Adam ChenCupertino, CA
