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CHRISTIANITY, SCIENCE, AND THREE PHASES OF BEING HUMAN
Author(s) -
Reichenbach Bruce R.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12665
Subject(s) - dualism , personhood , christianity , consciousness , relation (database) , epistemology , trace (psycholinguistics) , darwinism , philosophy , relevance (law) , free will , psychology , religious studies , linguistics , database , computer science , political science , law
The alleged conflict between religion and science most pointedly focuses on what it is to be human. Western philosophical thought regarding this has progressed through three broad stages: mind/body dualism, Neo‐Darwinism, and most recently strong artificial intelligence (AI). I trace these views with respect to their relation to Christian views of humans, suggesting that while the first two might be compatible with Christian thought, strong AI presents serious challenges to a Christian understanding of personhood, including our freedom to choose, moral choice itself, self‐consciousness, and the relevance of God to our beginning, being, and ending.