3+ week, 2+ hour ago (1089+ words) This article is reprinted in two parts from Doug Smith's blog, That Doug Smith (October 12, 2025). This is the second part. The first part is here. He also believes he can eliminate poverty with AI: Almost everybody living in extreme poverty lives in the other 6,000 languages. AI will enable us to conquer the other 6,000. So literally since Babel, we will have conquered language through AI for the first time. I wonder if he can hear himself? Since Babel? He's using AI to roll back God's judgment at the Tower? Has he forgotten that God specifically didn't want us to "make a name'for ourselves" through our technology?'God is our Savior, not AI. I believe that's the single most powerful thing that we can do to eliminate poverty. I believe that's possible in our lifetime. Do you think the heart of our…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (585+ words) Five years ago, who would have thought that political scientist Charles Murray, famous for social analysis books like Coming Apart (2012), would write Taking Religion Seriously (2025)? He now examines traditional religious approaches to the meaning of life on the assumption that they might actually be correct. A far cry from the usual effort to explain them away or patronize those who accept them. For example, Murray writes about terminal lucidity " the sudden clarity that many people gain just before dying: We've covered terminal lucidity here at Mind Matters News over the years: Excerpt from The Immortal Mind (2025) But the critical question is, what does the verb account for mean? Further from TIM: And, wouldn't you know it, a famous materialist figure fell right in! The Empire strikes back Well! Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, a champion of materialism, jumped in to reply,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (1028+ words) This article is republished with the permission of Doug Smith from his blog That Doug Smith (November 10, 2025) A leader at a large Christian ministry heard'my debate with Jay Owen'on Preston Sprinkle's podcast a few months ago and invited me to be on that podcast as well. I was excited because I'm a big fan of the ministry. But in our email dialog, he made this extra request about what he'd like me to say: Given that AI is already being used at school, among friends, family, in churches, etc., how can parents help their kids flourish? So the attention would be less on'if'kids should use AI and more on how to faithfully follow Jesus in the AI-saturated world we live in. It would be so much easier for me to go along. There is a cost for my views. But…...

4+ week, 24+ min ago (794+ words) This article is reprinted in two parts with the permission of author Doug Smith from his blog That Doug Smith(October 12, 2025) Smith is the author of [Un]Intentional: How Screens Secretly Shape Your Desires, and How You Can Break Free. This is the first of two parts. As Christians, we care about ultimate values. Love. Truth. Wisdom. All embodied in our Savior, Jesus Christ. But we don't always agree on how we should express our ultimate values. We're especially confused about whether to use Generative AI chatbots. What is the right Christian posture towards GenAI chatbots today? Are chatbots the way to satisfy our "hunger and thirst for righteousness?" Or are they more like a fast-food substitute, with the equivalent of addiction-forming chemicals that poison us while we can't stop eating them? Should we "run right to [AI] and find…...

1+ week, 46+ min ago (265+ words) A downloadable audio file is available from Humanize of an interview with Olivier Bonnassies, author with Michel-Yves Bollor" of God: the Science, the Evidence (2025), which just became available this fall in English. In God: The Science, The Evidence, Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore argue that science is in the midst of a "great reversal" in which the supposedly incompatible realms are becoming mutually reinforcing. Bonnassies is a science writer, an entrepreneur, and a graduate of Polytechnique and the Institute of Catholique de Paris. An unbeliever until the age of twenty, he is the author of books, videos, scripts, articles, newsletters, and websites on subjects related to faith and reason. "Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller on the Scientific Evidence for God," November 10, 2025 The host is Wesley J. Smith and they are joined by Brian Miller, Research Coordinator for Discovery Institute's Center for Science…...