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ChatGPT and The Return of God: AI As An Unexpected Apologist, by Scott Ventureyra – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine, Sept. 3, 2025

Scott Ventureyra earned a doctorate in theology from Carleton University/Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada in 2017. He has published in academic journals such as Science et Esprit, The American Journal of Biblical Theology, Studies in Religion and Maritain Studies (the journal of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association). …

 

What has been seen by many as the coming secular triumph over God, is now concluding that in fact, God must exist.

For decades, many assumed technology would accelerate secularization. People feared that artificial intelligence, in particular, would be the cold instrument of a transhumanist future, erasing the last remnants of faith. Yet, ironically, AI is now functioning as an apologist for God. A recent exchange between British atheist Alex O’Connor (“Cosmic Skeptic”) and ChatGPT, later reviewed by renowned Christian philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig on his Reasonable Faith podcast, demonstrated just how deeply the classical arguments for God are woven into our intellectual tradition.

An Argument Hidden in Plain Sight

O’Connor began innocently, asking ChatGPT to stick to facts. He pointed to the microphone in front of him. ChatGPT affirmed that the microphone exists, and its existence is contingent (in other words, it might not have existed). From there, O’Connor pressed: contingent things cannot simply exist without cause; they either require an infinite regress of other contingent causes or must ultimately be grounded in a necessary being. …

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