1. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Knuth
Christianity and Computer Science

2. When Mentioned at All
Ethics
Excellence

3. Examples from other fields
Astronomy
“Big Bang” – creation implies a creator
History
Providence as an organizing principle
Philosophy
God as a frame of reference - reality
Literature
Themes such as redemption

4. Areas of Interest Cultural Impact Apologetics Understanding Creation
Strong AI
Genetic Program & Algorithms
Intelligent Design Theory
Understanding Creation
Man as a creator
Linguistics
Bioinformatics
Design in nature
Service to the Church

5. Crouch, Andy. Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
The Cultural Mandate
“Culture is what we make of the world, both in creating cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. By making chairs and omelets, languages and laws, we participate in the good work of culture making.”
What is
Current Culture
Like?
Crouch, Andy. Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

6. Networked Computers What’s this picture of? Engine control
Anti-Lock brakes
Traction control
Roll Over protection
Navigation
Security / fob
Sound systems
Current Cars have processors
and up to 100 million lines of code
Coming Soon – drive by wire, self driving cars, etc.

7. Where’s the computer Clay models Wind tunnel testing Crash testing
Material estimates
Blueprints
Tool and Die production

8. Where’s the computer Just in time inventory
Automated material handling
Robotic Assembly
Welding
painting

9. Where’s the computer? Inventory control Sales projections
Revenue management
Financing
Insurance

10. Essentially everything you buy depends on computers for its design, manufacturing, distribution, and in many cases the object itself contains computers
Phillips Consumer Products
TV’s have the amount of software that PC’s had 5 years ago
Electric Shavers have a much software as early PC’s

11. Apologetics

12. Related Topics Artificial Life Evolving Robots Intelligent Design
Popular Science April 2006
John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine
Related Topics
Artificial Life
Evolving Robots
Intelligent Design
Darwin Goes HiTech

13. Smithsonian Magazine Sept 2007
The Player – Luis Von Ahn
Related Topics
“Strong” AI
Building Brains
“It’s a philosophical question. If you think the brain is a machine there’s no reason a machine can’t be made to do anything the brain can.”

14. Understanding Creation
Man as a creator

15. Isaiah 28:23-26
Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say. When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on braking up and harrowing the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.

16. Isaiah 28:27-29
Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; Caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it. All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.

17. Proverbs 30:18-19 KJV
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

18. Fredrick Brooks Excerpt from No Silver Bullet
Excerpt from The Mythical Man Month

19. Fred Brooks – No Silver Bullet
Man as a creator
“Software people are not alone in facing complexity. Physics deals with terribly complex objects even at the "fundamental" particle level. The physicist labors on, however, in a firm faith that there are unifying principles to be found, whether in quarks or in unified field theories. Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. “
“No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity that he must master is arbitrary complexity, forced without rhyme or reason by the many human institutions and systems to which his interfaces must conform. These differ from interface to interface, and from time to time, not because of necessity but only because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.”
Fred Brooks – No Silver Bullet

20. Do You Want to Serve the Church?

21. Wycliffe Bible Translators
Check IT Out Conferences

22. Third Millennium Ministries
Third Millennium Ministries' mission is to equip church leaders in their own lands by creating a multimedia seminary curriculum in five major languages in fifteen years.
Solomon's Temple Fly Through

23. Christian Groups Desperately Seeking Technical Help
Campus Crusade
Mission to the World
Southern Baptist Mission Board
GEM Discipleship Project