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In this video, I want to talk about the problem of anti-intellecutalism in some Atheist circles (esoecially with regard to New Atheism), address the problem, and hopefully allow people to move forward.
References
[1] Mark Noll - Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
[2] Tobin et. Al - Profiles of the American University Vol. 2
[3] A Handbook to Literature
[4] Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
[5] Daniel Dennett - Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
[6] youtube.com/watch?v=wxalrwPNkNI&pp=ygUabW9yYWwgbGFuZHNjYXBlIHNhbSBoYXJyaXM%3D
[7] youtube.com/watch?v=fopo9E7UAVQ&pp=ygUhc29waGlzdHJ5IG9mIGNocmlzdG9waGVyIGhpdGNoZW5z
[8] Justin Brierly - The Surprising Rebirth in Belief in God
[9] Jonathan Haidt - Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion
[10] Tim O’ Neil - historyforatheists.com
[11] debunking-christianity.com/2009/03/outsider-test-for-faith_20.html
[12] P.Z. Myers - Why I Am No Longer a Skeptic
#scholarship #christianity #philosophy #theism #atheism
In this video, I want to talk about the problem of anti-intellecutalism in some Atheist circles (esoecially with regard to New Atheism), address the problem, and hopefully allow people to move forward.
References
[1] Mark Noll - Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
[2] Tobin et. Al - Profiles of the American University Vol. 2
[3] A Handbook to Literature
[4] Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
[5] Daniel Dennett - Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
[6] youtube.com/watch?v=wxalrwPNkNI&pp=ygUabW9yYWwgbGFuZHNjYXBlIHNhbSBoYXJyaXM%3D
[7] youtube.com/watch?v=fopo9E7UAVQ&pp=ygUhc29waGlzdHJ5IG9mIGNocmlzdG9waGVyIGhpdGNoZW5z
[8] Justin Brierly - The Surprising Rebirth in Belief in God
[9] Jonathan Haidt - Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion
[10] Tim O’ Neil - historyforatheists.com
[11] debunking-christianity.com/2009/03/outsider-test-for-faith_20.html
[12] P.Z. Myers - Why I Am No Longer a Skeptic
#scholarship #christianity #philosophy #theism #atheism

![Are there things AI Cant Do?
#ai #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #philosophy #chatgpt #mind #intelligence
Note: This material is heavily inspired by the work of Robert Marks II, the first president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. I recommend consulting his work for more information. I also recommend Martin Davis incredible book The Universal Computer; Davis had the same PhD advisor as Turing, Alanzo Church.
References:
[1] “Google AI defeats human Go champion,” BBC News, May 25, 2017. Accessed: Nov. 04, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40042581
[2] A. Radford, K. Narasimhan, T. Salimans, and I. Sutskever, “Improving language understanding by generative pre-training,” OpenAI, 2018.
[3] R. Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Penguin, 2000.
[3] A. Kharpal, “Stephen Hawking says A.I. could be ‘worst event in the history of our civilization,’” CNBC. Accessed: Nov. 04, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/stephen-hawking-ai-could-be-worst-event-in-civilization.html
[5] H. A. Kissinger, “How the Enlightenment Ends,” The Atlantic, May 15, 2018. Accessed: Nov. 04, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124/
[6] S. Gibbs, “Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat,” The Guardian, Oct. 27, 2014. Accessed: Nov. 04, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat
[7] A. Lattes, “Help Wanted: For the Cognitive Era,” JHU Engineering Magazine. Accessed: Nov. 04, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/2017/05/help-wanted-for-the-cognitive-era/
[8] S. Nadella, G. Shaw, J. T. Nichols, and B. Gates, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, Updated edition. Harper Business, 2017.
[9] A. M. Turing, “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem,” Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, vol. s2-42, no. 1, pp. 230–265, 1937, doi: 10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230.
[10] R. J. Marks, “40. Will Intelligent Machines Rise Up and Overtake Humanity?,” in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos, Eugene: Harvest House Publishers, 2021.
[11] T. Nagel, “11. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” in 11. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 159–168. doi: 10.4159/harvard.9780674594623.c15.
[12] F. Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia,” The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 127, pp. 127–136, Apr. 1982, doi: 10.2307/2960077.
[13] D. J. Chalmers, “Facing up to the problem of consciousness,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 200–219, Mar. 1995.
[14] H. L. Dreyfus, What Computers Can’t Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, Rev. ed. 7th print. in Perennial library. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
[15] H. L. Dreyfus, What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. MIT Press, 1992.
[16] J. R. Searle, “Minds, brains, and programs,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 417–424, 1980, doi: 10.1017/S0140525X00005756.
[17] S. Bringsjord, P. Bello, and D. Ferrucci, “Creativity, the Turing Test, and the (Better) Lovelace Test,” in The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence, J. H. Moor, Ed., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2003, pp. 215–239. doi: 10.1007/978-94-010-0105-2_12.
[18] R. Penrose and M. Gardner, The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, 1st edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
[19] G. Hinton, “The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations,” Dec. 26, 2022, arXiv: arXiv:2212.13345. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.13345.
[20] M. Egnor, “19. Can Materialism Explain Human Consciousness?,” in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos, Eugene: Harvest House Publishers, 2021.
[21]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSCNW1OCk_M
[22] Turing, Alan. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Mind LIX, no. 236 (October 1, 1950): 433–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433.
[23] Flew, Antony, and Roy Abraham Varghese. There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. Harper Collins, 2009. Are there things AI Cant Do?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5fh5mUXkMnk/mqdefault.jpg)
![Anti-Intellectualism in Christianity
In this video, I want to talk about the problem of anti-intellecutalism in some Christian circles, address the problem, and hopefully allow people to move forward.
[1] Mark Noll - Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
[2] Tobin et. Al - Profiles of the American University Vol. 2
[3] Gunn - Religious Discrimination in the Selection of Medical Students: A Case Study
[4] Yancey - Compromising Scholarship
[5] Tapia - Losing the Precious Few
[6] Lewis et. Al - The relationship between intelligence and multiple domains of religious belief: Evidence from a large adult US sample
#jesus #scholarship #christianity Anti-Intellectualism in Christianity](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5oGym7o8uqg/mqdefault.jpg)

![Debunking David Hume’s Argument Against Miracles
In this video, Ill go over issues with David Humes argument Against Miracles in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. By debunking,
I mean pointing out issues in its current fomulation. As a result, it can be reformulated in a stronger way, but it needs to take into account developments in thought since then. My issues with Humes argument are as follows:
1. Humes argument begs the question
2. Humes argument is inconsistent with Humes own skepticism
3. Humes argument proves too much
4. Hume was ignorant of modern science (due to his place in history), which severly undermine his argument
5. Hume was ignorant of modern probability theory (including Bayesian statistics and Bayesian epsitemology), developed in response *to* his argument against miracles
Despite these problems, I have a great respect for Hume and do think his argument is worth considering and discussing. However, as atheist Peter Millican argues, it needs to be reformulated. A thank you to @TestifyApologetics for sugggesting Devett and Habermass book from one of his YouTube videos (It is avaliable on Audible)
[1] Klibansky and Mossner - New Letters p234
[2] Devett and Habermas - In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for Gods Action in History
[3] Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
[4] Earman - Hume’s Abject Failure
[5] Millican - Earman on Hume on Mircales
[6] Lewis - On Miracles
[7] Cramer - Miracles and David Hume
[8] Flew - There Is A God
#philosophy #christianity #miracle #miracles Debunking David Hume’s Argument Against Miracles](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8SPKX2m9xP4/mqdefault.jpg)


![a history of the Christian intellectual tradition...
#christianity #philosophy #history #apologetics
In this video, Ill talk about the history of the Christian intellectual tradition, which includes the church fathers up to the modern period.
References:
[1] Clement of Alexandria - The Stromata
[2] Rodney Stark - How the West Won
[3] Robert Louis Wilken - The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
[4] Henry Chadwick - Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition
[5] James Davison Hunter - To Change the World
[6] Plato - Republic
[7] Plato - Laws
[8] SEP - Saint Augustine
[9] David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers - God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science”
[10] Tertullian - On Repentance
[11] Clement of Rome - Recognitions of Clement
[12] Charles Haskins - The Rise of Universities
[13] Augustine - City of God
[14] Phillip E. Johnson - The Genesis and Development of Set Theory a history of the Christian intellectual tradition...](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BFsS1zFm6Fw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Alvin Plantingas Ontological Argument (Arguments for Christianity)
I have a SubStack, read more here: https://thinkingchristian.substack.com
In this video, Ill talk about Alvin Plantingas Ontological Argument for the existence of God. This is a very different argument than the ones by St Anselm, for instance, and it rests on the idea of possible worlds which I will try to explain briefly and their relationship to modal logic.
References:
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
[2] Alvin Plantinga - The Ontological Argument (1965)
[3] WLC - Reasonable Faith
#christianity #theism #god #philosophy #theology Alvin Plantingas Ontological Argument (Arguments for Christianity)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CJBo6UYetXw/mqdefault.jpg)

