But what is the origin of reason and wisdom and intelligence. Obviously their absence from all other creatures, apart from the one creature made in the image of God, tells us that they are very special gifts. Man is unique and very privileged. He alone possesses something which is borrowed from God himself, something which sets him so high above the other creatures that he is a god to them – ‘I have said you are gods.’ This gift even allows man to understand God’s thoughts to some extent, for God has not only given us these gifts but has shared his thoughts and purposes and his future plans with us. Of course the ones who benefit most from these exalted gifts are those who trust in the Lord and become his children by adoption, who have insight into his spiritual purposes and grasp the most glorious aspects of his revelation in Christ. But even those who are not converted have some feint image of these wonderful benefits, albeit damaged and ruined by the fall. Yet who apart from God is capable of giving such god-like capacities to man? Man dreams of artificial intelligence and his ability to make machines capable of thinking like himself. He sees this as one of his highest goals, but will he ever reach such heights, and will he ever do more than make a poor imitation, lacking true life and true spontaneity? He cannot make a human soul out of which all thought comes, and his efforts to create artificial intelligence are only machine-like replicas which lack the spark of life. Can you do such a thing Job, as to grant intelligence to another creature, the ability to reason, not simply by manipulating symbols in a machine, the meaning of which is apparent only to the designer, but by a living reason? Of course not.