Conflicts may arise between interpretations of nature and Scripture. For instance, a continuing concern of Christians is to deny science the exclusive right to define reality. By denying the existence of a nonmaterial reality which would, among others, exclude the possibility of the resurrection of Christ. Further, Ray Kurzweil, founder and CEO of Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. and of Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. expects the political and philosophical issue of the next century to be the definition of who we are. A well-known definition is that humans are machines.
Hospitalized people complain about being treated as such.
But this notion takes on a new meaning with intelligent machines. Humanity will be reconceived in the image of a machine. The Centre wants people to understand why this is happening. Science is so successful because it explains material phenomena in material terms. This success has misled people to believe that even morality and religion can be explained that way.