A friend of mine was writing a paper about artificial intelligence the other day and he argued that AI could not exist because it would rely on a program that was written by a human being who would give it choices in specific situations, he argued that because the machine would not be able to do anything that was not a pre-programed option for it. I wonder how this is any different from our own relationship with God. God is the higher being who gives us the options that we have to make decisions if God does not make us aware of a given option how is that any different than a computer programmer not giving a computer the option to make a choice?