Essays:

• The human/computer interface
• The meaning of 666 and cognitive complexity: An interview with Johnny Zeb
• Neural implant technology and the abomination that causes desolation: An interview with Danny Shazzar
• The coming singularity: 10 reasons Why it will never come

As a people, we need to be aware of the hand of God our personal lives, in the church, in the nations. But all of these are directly impacted today by science and technology. We are mixture of dust, water, and technology. We need to be aware of what we may call the "Theopatterns" in the high-technologies of electronics, telecommunications, avionics, computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and mathematics. Theopatterns are the arrangements and relationships of things that by their pattern reveal the hidden forces of God behind the curtain. It is much like the way in which iron filings arrange themselves according to a magnetic field imposed by a magnetic hidden beneath a surface.

Why should the Christian look to science and technology to understand God? Simply because in all things, even in man's so called great advances in science technology, God has placed the mark of His creation. The over riding scripture of this book is from Roman 1:20.

As a cognitive psychologist and a specialist in human/computer interaction, I am challenged to bring my knowledge of the scriptures to understand the phenomena around me. We comprehend the world only because God has imbued it with meaning either in creation or in revelation. Not because we bring meaning to it. For we ourselves are a part of it having been born of water.

This file will contain a collection of essays on technology and knowing God. Some are clearly apologetic in nature, others are contemplative, and others simply provocative. The topics in science in technology are by no means representative of current developments, but rather reflect the interests of this writer and his smattering of exposure to various areas of current developments. Consequently, they dwell primarily in the study of human/computer interaction and the cognitive and information sciences with brief excursions into other areas.

I have long struggled with the question of whether to write about technology from a Christian or secular perspective. From a Christian perspective, I would be obligated to pay a certain degree of homage to other Christian writers, to relate ideas to the set of stock theological issues and debates that are popular in church, and to make sufficient, if not appropriate references to Scripture. From the secular perspective, I would be obligated to avoid references to the Triune God, to limit the nature of Jesus to that of a good teacher, and to eschew any concepts of divine intervention, inspiration, or revelation. Taking either perspective, I would be tempted to project from where I stand a false facade of credibility in either direction. Thus, neither road is acceptable. When a decision maker finds himself or herself in such an impasse, the solution is generally found in restructuring the space. So it must be with this collection. It is not written to the contemporary Christian nor is it structured around a popular Christian theme. Neither is it a provocative secular treatment of issues that border on the eternal written in a godless void to increase readership. Rather, it is written with little if any preconceived notion about the reader either by choice or by ignorance of the author. Each piece that follows has its own spin, undoctored, and unadulterated.

Consequently, these essays are offered, as it were, to any passerby Christian or atheist, Moslem or Jew, Cyreian or Vulcan. If anything offends my Christian brothers and sisters because it does not conform to their schemas of things, I am sorry. Send me email and let us reason together. If my faith in Christ is offensive to others, I am also sorry. I cannot nor should not hide what I am. Accept my thoughts if only because it is one point in your pluralistic view of reality. To both groups, I can only request, "Do not prejudge the validity of thoughts or ideas without first hearing them out." Then you are free to pick up the stones. But even in this there is a lesson: "Mankind reverts to the lowest technology when beliefs are threatened."

• The human/computer interface
• The meaning of 666 and cognitive complexity: An interview with Johnny Zeb
• Neural implant technology and the abomination that causes desolation: An interview with Danny Shazzar
• The coming singularity: 10 reasons Why it will never come

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