All posts tagged: Science and Theology

The real danger of AI isn’t AGI, it’s human’s mistaking what they are encountering

June 9, 2025
by Nicholas Knisely
Artificial Intelligence

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not “understand” anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another. Many people, […]

AI and its impact on us in the short term.

May 30, 2025
by Nicholas Knisely
Uncategorized

Carol asked in a comment this week if I could say something about what I believe the impact will be on society in the near term. What follows is a quick sketch of ideas, supported by my reading, and organized by an AI Chatbot that I use to keep track of my research. I’ve edited and expanded on the results that I’ve gotten from the tool I’m using. There are several important concerns about how […]

Rewilding the church yards

February 11, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Climate Change / Religion / Science

‘Places of the living’: bishop of Norwich calls for churchyards to be rewilded | Anglicanism | The Guardian: Graham Usher, the Bishop of Norwich: “My dream is that churchyards will be places of the living, not just the dead.” A paper submitted to the synod meeting in London says there is “noticeable biodiversity potential” within churchyards. However, it adds, “these places carry significance for the communities that surround them … Their significance and primary role […]

Simple Biblical Truth?

February 1, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Religion / Science

Over the years, as I’ve studied the conversation between Science and Theology, it’s been clear that whatever perceived divide there is between the two, the width of that divide varies regionally. And in my experience one form of Applied Philosophy (either Science or Theology) is privileged in the US over the other depending which side the region was on during the Civil War. Essentially one region, the South insisted on a particular hemenuetic (method of […]