Scripture Referenced

[7] You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:7

[29] “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29

Link Referenced

Curiosity is the Wick in the Candle of Learning, online at: https://extension.psu.edu/programs/betterkidcare/parents-families/families-count/curiosity-is-the-wick-in-the-candle-of-learning

Book Referenced

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/0143117467

Movies Referenced

- Free Guy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/

- The Matrix - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

- Wreck it Ralph - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/

Philosophical Concepts

- Berkeley and Idealism - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

- Don Hoffman's Conscious Realism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman

- Pantheism, Panentheism, Theism - https://www.theosophical.org/files/events/MahatmaLetters/About_God.pdf

Scriptures Referenced

- Creation - Genesis 1, 2

- Glitch - Genesis 3

- GameWorld/History - Isaiah 46:8-11

- God enters the game - John 1

- Makes a bunch of NPC's alive - John 3:5-8, Colossians 2:13-15

- Gives us a knowledge of what's true and good and really going on - Ephesians 1:7-12

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

- Matthew 7:24-27

- Psalm 69:1-3, 14-16

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

- Psalm 124 (quoted without reference)

- Psalm 29:10,11

Books Referenced

- For Augustine's reflections on the Summon Bonum see On the Moral Teaching of the Catholic Church, On the Nature of the Good, Book 19, The City of God

- The phrase Beauty and Barbed Wire can be found in John Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World?

Show Notes

Books Referenced

John Lennox, 2084 - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity https://www.amazon.com/2084-Artificial-Intelligence-Future-Humanity/dp/0310109566/

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrance Sejnowsky - https://www.academia.edu/38223831/Sejnowski_Terrence_J_The_deep_learning_revolution_2018_pdf

AI Superpowers Kai Fu Lee, https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X

Links Referenced

Rosalind Picard Testimony

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/april/rosalind-picard-mit-professor-meets-author-knowledge.html

Episode 4 - Technology and a Human Future - The Gospel Underground Podcast https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2017/9/29/episode-4-technology-and-our-human-future

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

Genesis 1; Psalm 19; John 1:1, 14; Philippians 2

Links Referenced

Reason to Believe - https://reasons.org/?s=aliens

Aliens, AI, and God: The Search for Superintelligence by Sean Oesch - https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/voices/aliens-ai-and-god-the-search-for-superintelligence

Stand to Reason - https://www.str.org/home

Cosmological Distances and the Nearest Star - https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/alpha-centauri-triple-star-system-about-4-light-years-from-earth/

Fermi's Paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

The Movie Contact - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/characters/nm0000190

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

Joshua 1:9

1 Kings 2:1-4

Psalm 23; Psalm 34:18; Psalm 46

Zephaniah 3:17

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

2 Corinthians 4:7-12

Books Referenced

A Praying Life by Paul Miller

Where is God when it Hurts by Philip Yancey

Show Notes

Scriptures Referenced

The universe and the Earth are created by God. Creation implies ownership. (Psalm 24:1,2)

We are called to care and cultivate the world as God created and placed humanity in dominion over creation. (Genesis 1, 2)

The creation is a gift and kindness from God to us. The earth provides for our needs for food, air, water, and shelter. (Genesis 9:3; Acts 14:15-17)

We should work and employ creation for human flourishing, multiplication, and honoring God. (Genesis 1, 3, Genesis 9:7)

Books Referenced

Norman Geisler, Christian Ethics, Options and Issues

Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Christopher Camuto, Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains 

TM Moore, Consider the Lillies, A Plea for Creational Theology

Helpful Links

Jame Schaefer, Ecological Ethics https://www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity/EcologicalEthics

Scripture Referenced

Genesis 1; Genesis 9; Deuteronomy 24; Psalm 8;

Matthew 5:21-26; Luke 6:27-31; Ephesians 2; Revelation 7; James 2; Galatians 3:23-29

Books Referenced

Demon Unrest by Erik Larson

Six Frigaites by Ian Toll

Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by Thomas Oden

Links Referenced

The Clapham Sect - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Sect

The Reverend Richard Allen https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2011/2/18/the-rev-richard-allen.html

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

Matthew 22:17-22; Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-17; Titus 3:1-5

Books and Links Referenced

Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion, https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/

Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics by Robert Benne, https://www.amazon.com/Good-Think-about-Religion-Politics/dp/0802863647

Scripture Referenced

Nehemiah 4; Romans 15:6, 7; Titus 3

Links Referenced

Virginia Tech Wrestling