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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Are Aliens and A I a Sign of the End?

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig continues to get questions on Artificial Intelligence! He also answers questions on UFO'S, Atheism, and Genesis.

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0:00.0

Hey, glad you're here, Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lang Craig.

0:05.5

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0:10.8

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0:48.2

Now let's get to the studio with Dr. Craig.

0:51.1

Dear Dr. Craig, with all the AI hype and several experts stating that we're only a few years

0:57.0

from the development of AGI, that's artificial general intelligence, which is a hypothetical

1:04.0

computer program that can perform intellectual tasks as well as are better than a human. How should Christians react to all of this?

1:15.8

And what would it mean for the biblical worldview? Hector in Chile.

1:21.7

I have recently begun to read in the area of cognitive science, which is a broad array of disciplines,

1:31.1

that attempt to model the human mind or human brain on a computer.

1:38.7

And according to the reading I've done, it has now generally been realized by cognitive scientists that a computational

1:49.7

model of the brain is in fact incorrect. Computers can mimic certain unconscious or automatic features of human cognition,

2:03.6

but it cannot reproduce human inferences that rely upon the meaning of certain sentences,

2:14.6

the what is called the semantic contents of the propositions being

2:20.8

considered. And so I think it's generally recognized now that this computational

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