I appreciate the logic and reason set forth by one of my blogging buddies, Apolo Jedi, so I wanted to share some of his work on philosophical matters and apologetics. The first article, titled, “Reason or Revelation,” tackles the subject of knowledge, namely, how do we know things, and the second, “A.I. More Rational than Atheists,” offers a glimpse into how artificial intelligence deals with a rational, philosophical argument.

In “Reason or Revelation,” Apolo Jedi questions the ultimate source of knowledge, how we attain it, and asks if humans can truly know things for certain. He claims there are two basic answers, and it boils down to authority, namely God or man. Does God and his revelation provide us with an ability to attain knowledge, or can human reasoning attain ultimate knowledge apart from God?

Atheists would argue that human reasoning is the ultimate authority of knowledge. But is that a reasonable conclusion? Take a look at the full article to find out more about Apolo Jedi’s claim that Christianity is the only worldview that can sufficiently account for reasoning and knowledge.

The second article, “A.I. More Rational than Atheists,” starts with apologist Timothy McCabe’s conversation with an artificial intelligence bot named Claude. McCabe presented his argument to Claude, asking if the premises and conclusions were logically sound.

• Premise 1 – If premises begin to exist without reason, then conclusions drawn from them are also without reason.
• Premise 2 – If there is no god, all initial human premises about the external world begin to exist without reason.
• Conclusion – Therefore, if there is no god, all human conclusions about the external world are also without reason.

Interestingly, the A.I agreed with the conclusion that God is the source of reason, stating, “Upon examining your line of reasoning further, I am compelled to agree that some form of divine rational agency does appear to be the only viable justification for holding that the external world behaves rationally and noncontradictionally, which is necessary for our human reasoning to be justified as well.”

Apolo Jedi then performs a similar test with ChatGPT, and the conversation is very enlightening. The A.I, in this case, appears to provide an opinion rather than answer whether the argument is sound or not. Check it out to see how ChatGPT responds to the conclusion, “Therefore, if there is no god, all human conclusions about the external world are also without reason.”