Introduction I am writing this book on the advice of a friend.  He is an inspiration of relentless persistence and unashamed honesty.  It is certainly ironic that in order to write a book about belief, I first had to be convinced to believe in myself.  Speak what is on your mind Sean, as will I.  As far as my qualifications, I have by no means lived a perfect life nor am I an exemplary picture of the modern Christian man.  No, instead I have become acquainted with the struggle.  Wrestling with doubt and with God himself; I questioned everything that [...]

It has been a few years since my last post. Perhaps I needed to live a bit before I continued to write. Or perhaps, that is simply the lie I tell myself to feel better about this lapse. Either way, in my quietest moments, I still feel called to write and share my writing. And while I have been away from this blog, I have not been away from writing entirely. I was a part of a movement within the medical community where I wrote to change antiquated views on an underserved disease. And, in my personal time, I began [...]

  Artificial intelligence is nothing new.  We have had intelligent programs/systems that are very intelligent at solving problems and performing complex tasks for decades. In fact, the famous Turing Test, which was invented to test if an artificial intelligence is able to be distinguished from a human intelligence in a short conversation, is not even applicable anymore in the field because AI is so far advanced past this test that it is easily passed by any properly designed AI. However, most AI is incredibly specialized and designed within limits.  We recently had a program designed by Google, AlphaGo, beat the [...]

Does the human soul chose out of free will?  Well that depends if you believe in a soul or a will I suppose. To prove a soul exists is like proving that God himself exists.  Many may believe in a soul and feel it deep within themselves but it seems impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.  There is no mathematical proof or experiment that we know to put a end to that questioning. However, one man once set out to do that exact thing.  The year was 1907 and the man was a Massachusetts physician named Duncan [...]