Dr. Jim Denison
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Today’s news offers much to discuss:
- Chinese officials are discussing the weaponizing of viruses far deadlier than COVID-19 to be used for “specific ethnic genetic attacks.”
- Multiple climate disasters have triggered the first-ever Red Cross disaster insurance payout.
- Henry Kissinger and his co-authors are warning that “AI can save humanity—or end it.”
- Iranian leaders, panicked over the election of Donald Trump and the success of Israel’s recent attacks, may push to develop nuclear weapons.
Various populations across the centuries have faced crises that threatened their future. But now, for the first time in human history, humans have the capacity to end human history.
- Weaponized viruses could conceivably spread beyond containment and destroy our species.
- The UN leader warns that climate disasters could render our planet uninhabitable.
- Artificial intelligence could become sentient, determine humans to be a threat to itself, and take measures to wipe us out.
- Nuclear weapons have been in existence for generations, but they were controlled by nations deterred by “mutually assured destruction”—if one launched on the other, the other would retaliate in ways that would destroy the instigator. But some Islamic theologians claim that if Iran attacked Israel and its collaborators in the West, their Mahdi (a messianic figure) would then reappear to protect Muslims. And autocrats in China and Russia may consider the deaths of millions of their people to be a price worth paying to achieve global hegemony for themselves and their empires.
Why would God allow such unprecedented existential challenges?
How would he redeem them for his glory and our good?
Both questions lead to the same hope. More Here