With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

What defines human persons as persons and separates us from animals?

Well, certainly, there are the intangible qualities of rationality, self-awareness, consciousness,

creativity, but we ought not forget that the human body is also a fundamental aspect of

our humanity.

To put all of the weight on our consciousness is an erroneous idea with disastrous consequences.

For example, award-winning philosopher Peter Singer recently compared, terminating the

lies of unborn children with unplugging a computer.

Singer's among those who think that artificial intelligence will one day merit the same moral

status as humans do, so that terminating some form of AI would be the same as killing

a person.

Singer has also argued, by the way, that the unborn, the disabled and incapacitated, may

not be fully persons with inherent dignity.

So he could imagine a world where unplugging a computer would be morally worse than

euthanizing a disabled child.

Look only the image of God, mind-so-embody, can ground human dignity and our ethics.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.