The Darwinian Ploy to Obscure Obvious Truths
We’ve all seen videos of amazing robots that walk, jump, pick up objects, avoid obstacles, keep their balance when hit, right themselves when they fall, and even engage in conversation. These incredible machines seem to think and make rational choices, but in reality, they have no options in their behavior. They merely do as their programs direct and make automatic adjustments to their movements and actions in response to built-in sensors that continually monitor their environments.
Denying Free Will
According to Richard Dawkins, robots are not the only automatons on planet Earth. He asserts that the above description of how robotic machines operate applies equally well to humans: “We, and all...
Artist and writer Thomas Williams was formerly the art director for Word Publishing. He is the author of The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia (Thomas Nelson) and fourteen other books of light theology and fiction. He is co-author with Josh McDowell of How to Know God Exists.
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