Reasonable Faith Podcast What Color is a Unicorn's Blood?
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Aug 4, 2025 Dive into a conversation about AI's impact on faith and arguments for God. Explore the cosmological argument and the need for a first cause behind existence. Discover the pitfalls of misreferenced scholarship that can distort academic discussions. The dialogue encourages skepticism regarding AI's reliability and its implications for creativity. Engage in philosophical nuances of induction versus deduction in reasoning, promoting critical thinking and a quest for empirical truth.
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AI Errors in Scholarly Research
- William Lane Craig shares experiences where AI (Grok) provided false scholarly information and fabricated quotes.
- These inaccuracies highlight the risks of fully trusting AI for academic research and citations.
Verify AI Responses Carefully
- Don't fully trust AI to provide accurate information; verify AI responses before relying on them.
- Test AI by asking questions you already know the answers to, to check its reliability.
Clarifying Equivocation Misunderstanding
- Equivocation is misuse of the same term in different senses, but confusing different terms referring to the same thing is not fallacious.
- Alex O'Connor did not equivocally conflate universe and existence; the critique is misplaced.
