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Concluding Remarks Some of the theological and ethical concerns surrounding engineering technology are genuine and must be thoroughly addressed at all stages of development and implementation. However, despite the controversies around initiatives in this field, AI still remains a beneficial resource for human flourishing. Advances made in AI and biomechatronics have the capacity to be honoring unto God, as they can demonstrate the unique creative abilities that God has bestowed on us. In addition, it is reassuring to remember that God alone has the power to create life ex nihilo, and no current or future advancement in technology will ever usurp that. Furthermore, as creatures of God, we are to bear His image; and as imitators of His character, we are to instill — when
applicable — those virtues and moral boundaries into our technological advancements.
Clay Dillow, “Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to a New Robotic Body?,” Popular Science, March 2, 2012, https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/ achieving-immortality-russian-mogul-wants-begin-putting-humanbrains-robots-and-soon. 1
2 Anthony A. Hoekema, Created in God’s Image (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994), 216. 3 Ibid., 217. 4 O. Carter Snead, What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2020), 13.
