About AI Won’t Get Us to Heaven. But It Might Be There When We Arrive.
| Authors | Schuurman, Derek C. |
|---|---|
| Date | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ai-in-heaven-technicism-dataism-new-creation/ |
| Language | en-US |
Type: Blog Post
Tags: Artificial intelligence, creation, Culture, data science, Ethics, fall, machine learning, mortality, new creation, redemption, responsibility, technicism
Abstract
If eternity includes harps and the ships of Tarshish, why not computers too? The author poses this question not only to generate lively debate but also to unlock key biblical assumptions about culture and technology within the arc of the biblical story—a story that begins with creation and ends with a new creation. Artificial intelligence arises directly from the marvelous structure of reality. The positioning of petals on a flower, the movement of traffic, the rhythm in music, the arrangement of DNA, and changes in weather all follow mathematical and statistical patterns. The advent of the computer (another creational possibility) provides a tool capable of processing large amounts of data and detecting these patterns. AI systems are only possible due to the patterns in God’s good creation. Problems with AI do not arise from defects in creational possibilities but rather from a misdirection of these possibilities. [A]